3.9. Inserting Photos and Media

In spite of the name, Word isn’t all about words these days. For that matter, neither are we, the communicating public. More than ever, we capture photos or video on our phone and shoot them to our friends almost immediately. Keeping in step with the multimedia revolution, Word makes it ridiculously easy to pop photos, sound, and movies into your document. The main reason you don’t see more people using Word this way is that it makes your document files really big.

In Word, the portal to your media is the media browser. As usual, you can approach it several different ways: