Coversion question

[RobertVA]

Looking back at Excel '97 on my XP system there is an "Object..." selection on the "Insert" menu. Among a long list of objects that can be inserted are "Media Clip", "Windows Media Player" and "Video Clip". With later versions of Excel you might need to hunt around in a tool bar/ribbon or hidden seldom used items on a menu. There might be variations in the procedure with different Excel versions. As usual the "..." indicates the menu item will be opening a pop-up window.

In Apace Open Office 4 on this Windows 8.1 system there's also an "Object" item on the "Insert" menu, but it has "Video" on a fly out menu. There's also a pop-up with a longer list of embeddable objects than is listed in the menu fly out.

You should be able to find similar capabilities in slide show applications like PowerPoint and Open Office's Impress. The same for word Processors like Microsoft Word and Open Office Writer.

Of course you should have a cell in your spreadsheet selected when you use these menu items.

 

[farmkid]

That didn't seem to work?
I not as computer literate as some of you here I'd need a step by step how to embed a file/video into a excel sheet.
I feel so fucking useless right now.

Okay, now it's not clear what you're trying to do. At first, it seemed your intent was to change the file extension so that the file looked like a spreadsheet when it was in fact a video. Now, you talk about embedding the video in a spreadsheet, which is a completely different thing. Which exactly are you trying to do?

 

[Gil T.Azell]

That didn't seem to work?
I not as computer literate as some of you here I'd need a step by step how to embed a file/video into a excel sheet.
I feel so fucking useless right now.

Okay, now it's not clear what you're trying to do. At first, it seemed your intent was to change the file extension so that the file looked like a spreadsheet when it was in fact a video. Now, you talk about embedding the video in a spreadsheet, which is a completely different thing. Which exactly are you trying to do?

I was trying to imbed a short video in the an excel file so when the attachment show up it looks like an excel icon not a .wmv icon.

I've seen them come through with games attached ect. and wondered how it was done.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

That should be easy enough to do in Excel. Create a new spreadsheet, open an Explorer window to the video you want to embed, then drag it onto the spreadsheet. Save and send.

 

[Gil T.Azell]

That should be easy enough to do in Excel. Create a new spreadsheet, open an Explorer window to the video you want to embed, then drag it onto the spreadsheet. Save and send.

well I dragged and put it into a excel page and this is what it looked like?
Not sure if its right?

I don't think it woked? even with the save as an .xls?

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Well, there's no way to get a video out of it when it looks like that. Yikes.

What version of Excel are you using? It looks like a version prior to 2007, since it doesn't have the Ribbon interface. Under "Insert," find an option for "File" or "Object" and try to insert the video that way.