How to insert or Embed youtube Video in Excel Worksheet?

In this article, the user will learn the process to add a youtube video to the Excel sheet. There are many ways to add the youtube video to the Excel file. But here will be firstly adding a video editor through the add−in feature, and then using youtube to find the required video, the user wants to add in the Excel sheet. Save the URL, and paste it into the URL bar, to add the required youtube video.

Benefits are listed below

• It enhances the visual presentation of data in Excel sheets. By adding a youtube video to an Excel sheet, users can combine the text, data, and other relevant features easily and effectively. It allows the user to create presentations or reports to enhance the user experience..

• It allows users to add interactive Training and Documentation inside the Excel sheet. This means that users can add Excel to train the employees, by allowing them to create different training purpose materials such as step−by−step guides, syllabi, documentation, and many others.

• It allows users to analyze the data and visualization. By allowing users to add YouTube videos. Such as generating useful insights related to the data such as charts or graphs representing market trends.

• It also improves communication and collaboration among users. By Sharing YouTube videos data can be communicated with another team member very easily, and team members also find this data useful for learning as it is a visual tool. It also helps in eliminating the extra overhead for all the employees to individually search for the same data again and again.

Example 1: To Insert the youtube video in Excel by adding the video editor plugin to the Excel sheet.

Step 1

In this example will learn the process to insert or embed the youtube video in an Excel worksheet. To understand the example more precisely will be using a blank or empty worksheet.

Step 2

After that find any youtube video that the user wants to insert in the Excel sheet. Go to the Developer tab, and under the add−ins section, click on the “Add−ins” option. A snapshot for the same is provided below

Step 3

The above step will open the “Office Add−ins” dialog box. This dialog box, allows users to install any required plugin or add−in from the office store. To do so, click on the “Office Store” button, provided below

Step 4

The above step will open an “Office Add−ins” dialog. In this dialog box, click on the search bar and type “Youtube”. This will show some suggestions. Among the displayed suggestion options, select the first option, the “Web Video Player” option. This option allows the user to embed or insert the video option in the Excel sheet. Click on the “Add” option. Consider below provided snapshot for reference

Step 5

The above step will open a one-moment dialog box and further click on the “Continue” option. Consider the below−depicted image for reference

Step 6

The above step will display a screen that contains space to enter the youtube video URL, along with the autoplay, start at and end at time features. A snapshot for reference is provided below

Step 7

In the URL bar enter the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AP1nNK3bRs link and click on the “Set video” button. Consider the below-provided snapshot for proper reference

Step 8

The above step will add a youtube video as shown below. From here, user can also go to the youtube by clicking on the “youtube” button provided in the video.

Conclusion

This article illustrates the method of adding a plugin to the youtube video, and then by using this plugin the user can easily insert a youtube video into the Excel sheet. It is helpful for document and training document designing.