How to insert audio and video into Excel

Insert pictures into Excel cells or insert Word documents into Excel very easily. So what if I want to insert a video into an Excel spreadsheet? When inserting video into Word or inserting audio into text, users now have the option in the Very simple Insert section. However, with Excel, you do not have the option of inserting multimedia files right in the interface but need to perform through many different steps, but in general, it is very simple.

The video and audio inserted into Excel have no format restrictions so users can freely choose the file. Besides video when inserted into Excel, there are options to stop playing, rewind media files. The following article will guide you how to insert media files into Excel.

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Instructions for inserting videos into Excel

Step 1:

Users click on the Developer tab and then select on Insert below. Display a small table for you to click on the More Control icon .

Step 2:

Display the new user interface, click Windows Media Player in the list, and then click OK to continue.

Step 3:

Back to the spreadsheet interface in Excel, we hover the mouse in the spreadsheet interface to create a form that displays the media frame and is shown as an image.

Right-click on the frame and select Properties from the displayed list.

Step 4:

A new panel appears, click Custom and then click on the 3-dot icon to customize.

Display the dialog box for us to add media files, click the Browse button to add the video file you want to insert into the worksheet in Excel.

After selecting, click Apply to add media file to Excel spreadsheet.

Step 5:

Next, click on Design Mode to enable playing videos in Excel with Windows Media Player tool.

The result of the video was then played with the same interface as when users played the video directly on Windows Media Player.

Right- clicking on the video player frame will display the custom list as shown below.

With the audio files we do the same, also click on the song you want to insert into Excel spreadsheet.

The result also displays the music playing interface in Excel as with video.

So we know how to insert music or video into spreadsheets in Excel. This option will only apply to videos available on the computer. We can immediately insert the presentation video or audio prompt files right in the spreadsheet interface for easy tracking.

I wish you successful implementation!