Overview
Business document generally include statistics, graphs, images, videos, survey results, sales figures, financial data and so on. Besides inserting them, there would be instances when you will have to embed the in your documents. Zoho Writer offers insert and also embed options to help you either insert or embed the desired media in your documents.
Steps
Insert videos
You can directly upload videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion and use them in your documents.
- Go to the Insert tab.
- Click Media, and select Videos.
- In the Videos tab that opens on the right pane, click the drop down button located beside the search box to choose the desired video platform, and use the search tab to search for videos. You can also directly enter the public URL of the video in the search tab.
- Click Insert.
To disable video embeds, go to Settings > Preferences and uncheck the "Automatically embed video from links" option.
Embed presentations, charts, or videos
You can use the embed option to include charts, videos, and presentations across files. In your Writer document, you can embed published presentations from Zoho Show, charts from Zoho Sheet, and reports from Zoho Reports.
To embed content,
- Go to Insert tab.
- Go to Media, click Embed.
- In the Enter your url/Embed code dialog, enter the code, click Embedding Options to specify how to fit the media in your document, and click Insert.
Embed chart in your Writer document
You can easily embed a chart that you create in Zoho Sheet in your Writer document.
- Create a new chart or open an existing chart using Zoho Sheet.
- Click the Share button in your Sheet file and choose the Publish option.
- You can find an embed code snippet in the popup. Copy the code snippet and enter it in your Writer document using the steps in the previous section.
Once you insert the embed link, you can double click on the embedded media in your document to make any changes.
Resizing embeds and text around embeds
Writer allows you to embed content from many web services. Embedded text or videos can be moved or resized based on your requirements.

You can also apply border to your embedded content and re-align the thumbnail to control the flow of text around these embeds.
