10. Working with Pictures and Videos

Pictures and videos can do a lot to make a document more interesting. You can use pictures to illustrate technical concepts, to help readers understand a description, or just as decorations to make a page more pleasant and readable.

In the past, most documents have been distributed on paper, so including videos wasn’t possible. Nowadays, though, more and more documents are distributed electronically, opening up the possibility of embedding video clips into documents. In this chapter, you find out about using both pictures and videos in Word documents—how to insert them, how to format them, how to apply special effects to them, and much more.

Understanding Digital Photography

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