Word 2011

How to add YouTube video to Word 2011.

In this tutorial we are going to see the steps required for adding videos from Youtube in Word 2011 for Mac. In Office 2011 you can not directly embed YouTube video URL. If you want to insert videos then you need to the following.

first download the video using third party software
Insert the downloaded file using Media option in Word 2011.

Download YouTube Video using third party software.

Step 1: Open http://www.mediaconverter.org/ for downloading the video from YouTube (You can also use other third party software).

Step 2: Click Enter a link option and add the YouTube URL then click Ok button.

Step 3: In the media converter wizard, click go to the next step button.

Step 4: Select the type output file. Since this is on Mac, we have gone with MP4 format. After selecting the output file format, click start conversion button.

You should see the following status message on the media converter page.

Step 5: Click the download link to download the converted file on to your Mac.

Insert downloaded video file in Word 2011

Step 1: Launch Word 2011, click Insert menu and select Movie from file under Movie.

Step 2: In the “Insert Movie or Audio” screen, select downloaded YouTube video and click Choose button.

Now you should be able to see and play the video in your document.

How to convert text to table in Word 2011 for Mac

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Word 2011 for Mac has a feature that allow users to convert selected text to table. Let us see how to convert the below text to a table using Convert Text to Table feature.

Step 1: Select the text and click Table menu.

Step 2: In the Table menu list, navigate to Convert and select Convert Text to Table option. This would display the Convert Text to Table window as shown below.

Step 3: The example texts are separated using Tabs, navigate to Separate text at section and choose Tabs from the available option. This should automatically detect the rows and columns if the text are only separated by tab. If you are using other delimiters then choose appropriate separators for conversion.

Step 4: Choose the AutoFit behaviour and increase the table size if you are planning to add more rows and columns. Click Ok to confirm and save the changes.

How to add background for document in Word 2011 for Mac

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This tutorial is about the steps required to add background colour or picture to word document in Word 2011 for Mac.

Step 1: Launch the Word Application on Mac and click the Layout Option.

Step 2: In the Layout option, navigate to Page Background section and click the Colors option.

Step 3: The Color drop down will provide different option for changing colours, setting fill effects. The default page background is set to No Fill. If you are looking for other colours other than the theme colours or Standard Colours then click the More Colours option.

You can choose from Color Wheel, Color Sliders, Color Palettes, Image Palettes and Crayons.

Step 4: If you are interested set Patterns or select an image as background then click The Fill effects option.

You can go for Gradient, Texture, Pattern or set background image.

If you want to set background image for a paragraph instead whole document then select the paragraph and repeat the above steps.

How to insert watermark in Word 2011 Mac

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It is always recommended to insert watermark in your confidential document and this article explains how to add watermark in Word 2011 for Mac.

Click the Layout menu and navigate to Page Background section.

Click the Watermark option to launch the Insert Watermark window.

If you want to add your company logo as Watermark then select Picture radio option then browse and select the the logo using the Select Picture button. Picture Watermark also provides Washout and Scale option.

If you want to add text as a Watermark for the document then select Text radio option and enter the watermark text. Text Watermark provides user with different options such as Font Style, Transparency and Orientation.