[Duncan McC]

In article ,
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Sounds very simple huh?

How does one simply insert an .avi file into a Word doc so that it can
then be played?

I've searched the NG's and found stuff about changing the extension to
mpg, or mpeg (can't recall the exact details now) - but didn't have much
joy in that anyway.

And anyway, why not play a fully compatible (MS Media Player) avi file -
that's the object of the excercise.

Shouldn't this be easy and just work?

Some more info...
(as posted: Office 2007 Ultimate, XP Pro), and the error message I get
when I drag n' drop a video onto the doc...

Video not available, cannot find 'vids:XVID' decompressor.

XVID is installed from the web (full/free installer). The video plays
fine in MS Media Player, so why not in Word?

Such a simple thing I'd have thought.

And yes, if I rename the video to give it a .mpg extension, it does
kinda work, but it's "not very nice" I can elaborate if you want,
basically the preview (before you play it) is horrible, it resizes
horribly on the screen and is quite hard to 'grab' the handles to resize
it back down. And it plays quite poorly.

If I could just get the avi in there, resize it to make it a bit smaller
(as one sees fit), that's the sorta thing they are after.


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Duncan