Hello and welcome to this video tutorial from computer ga guard dot com
In this video, we are going to look at how you can insert a QR code into your word documents
Now, we're going to start by going to the insert tab and over to your add ins area which has only been out
for a couple of versions now of office. So unless you have one of the more recent versions of word
then you may not have access to this. But what I'm going to need to do is grab one of the many really useful add
ins that you can get nowadays and seamlessly interact with your word
your Excel and your powerpoint documents. I'm going to click on the store because I need to go and find this QR code generator
that I want to use. So I'm gonna click on this store button on the insert tab and I'm going to click on the store
uh like link at the top and I'm going to search for the one that I'm interested in which is office QR
and I'm going to search on those words where it will return a few suggestions for QR code generators
so you can take your pick out of the ones that are provided here
They're all much of a muchness, they'll all get the job done seamlessly and easily into your office documents
I'm going to choose this second one, QR for office as it has more stars than the one above
It has a better rating and I'm gonna add that in to my word document
Here it goes. It's just opening up on the right hand side here. So here it is
it's now available in my add ins for future use. Little drop down Q offer for office will be there for me
Now is actually available on the right hand side right now for me to put in my first add in
And the first thing you asked me to do is to enter the URL or text
I would like to encode. Now, I'm going to set a URL for my own website for computer gaga dot com
So if anybody was to scan this QR code with a reader, it will take you to the home page of my website
So we've got http computer ga guard dot com. So you've got a variety of options in here
It doesn't have to be a web address. It could be a secure http
There could be an email address with Mal two. We've even got S MS and some other options
I was going to go for a typical link to my website, I have options to change the color and the background and indeed even
the size of this and also a setting for error correction, which unless you understand this kind of stuff
um I'm just gonna leave as medium and keep it as standard because I'm not really too sure
No QR Code King to understand the real intensity obviously higher will be higher error correction
I'm not sure really what the difference is. I'm going to keep with their recommendation of a medium 15% and I'm probably just gonna keep
my black and white because that's how you normally see them. Um It's kind of a universal look and feel of QR codes
It's much in the same way that you expect hyperlinks to be blue and underlined
Sometimes if you change this stuff too much, you will confuse your users and the people who use it
Now, I'm just going to insert the one I've got here, click my insert button and in it goes
I have myself a QR code that if it was scanned by a reader would take you to the home page of my computer gaga
dot com website. Now you can see it, inserts it as any object as a picture
So any word skills you have with regards to working with pictures and working with objects can apply just the same to this QR
code. For example, I can resize it, I can align it. I can anchor it
I can do all the kind of stuff that you associate with objects
I can layer them. So you can work this in with your documents
especially if you're creating some kind of promotional or marketing material, you know
such as a leaflet or a brochure or a newsletter, then this QR code can be a very lovely little touch for people to find
additional information or some kind of discount or promotion that you may not have been able to squeeze into that leaflet
They can use this to attain the extra more detail or to go straight to a kind of discount landing page or something for you
to use. Very simple, get really great apps in office nowadays. And it's worth mentioning that this is for
office. You can use the same technique to get it in your powerpoint slides or in your Excel spreadsheets
I didn't demonstrate them because you're far less likely to use it in those environments than you are to word
But this is just one of those awesome online office apps that you can get
Now. I hope you found that tutorial useful. Please check out some of my other tutorials on my youtube channel
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