[Graham Mayor]

Even if you organised the codecs on your PC to allow the video to play from
within Word (and it is possible to do that) you cannot expect your customers
to jump through the same hoops. If you want to send customers video material
send it in DVD format that they can be sure of playing.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Duncan McC wrote:
In article ,
says...
Insert Object From file

However, what's the point of the exercise? A Word document is a
peculiar vehicle to carry a video file. You can't print it, the
chances are that you can't e-mail it, so what do you gain by
including it in a document?

Good questions - here's the scenario.

A client wants to send out a pdf (or .doc) file to their clients.
They may want to include a video on occasion. The info document will
be going out maybe 4 times a year.

I have looked at video in a .pdf - and the only things I've come up
with so far (I've only looked at Adobe stuff) is Adobe Acrobat (pro)
and Adobe Flash. All up, probably not much change from $1,000 NZD.

So I got to thinking... hence my question. It's free, and it's a
widely used format, and I've confirmed that all their clients could
open .doc files (any that couldn't could perhaps use the free MS Word
reader?).

But when I do a test on my machine, inserting some .avi I made on my
camera, it seems to embed ok, but it won't play.

MS Office 2007, XP Pro - all up-to-date.

PS: I assume Insert, Object, From File is the same as dragging a .avi
into the doc?


While my "cheap" method is just that, and it makes a much bigger file
than a web-ready, size optimised, flash video - I thought it could be
the go.