hi there jamie here today at teachers tech hope you're having a great day today today i want to
show you how you can quickly add a qr generator to either microsoft powerpoint word or excel so when
you go to a camera all you have to gonna do is go to it on your mobile device hover over the qr code
wherever you insert it maybe it's in a powerpoint and you want people to quickly uh get access to
your website or a certain document as soon as they hover over it they can just touch it and
it will go to wherever you send it to so i want to show you how you can do this today teachers tech
so first of all i want to show you how you can add this to your microsoft word powerpoint or excel
and it works the same for all of them if you go up to the tabs and look under insert right here and
when i'm looking in the ribbon look for add-ins and this is right here where it says get add-ins
and then this is where you can go to the add-ins what you have so i'm going to go ahead go to
add-ins and i'm going to search and all i'm going to do is type qr and it will get to the one i want
now you can see there's a number of different ones i was testing out different ones and i did find
i like this one the best the qr4 office here so i'm just gonna go ahead and click
add and hit continue and it's that simple so if i go to my add-ins and you can see it's open
on the side right now my add-ins right here this is where it will show up here
if i right-click on this i can add gallery to the quick access toolbar so if you wanted
to just have a quick access to it if i click it it's going to go right here to this quick access
so you could just have it in this quick drop down if you want you can right click on this and
remove this also so once you have this in i just want to point out when you go to the
office add-ins you can delete it if you don't like you can go ahead and remove it from here
so why would you want to use it in word well maybe you have a document that you want to have a qr
code in maybe you want to print out qr codes and you want to just place them in microsoft word so
you can see over here it's fairly easy to use in the example i used my website and for my website i
know it's https and if i drop down i would choose this and i would just go ahead and type the url of
my website which is just teachers.tech i have some more options to customize if i wanted it not black
i could just pick a color i wanted and i could change the background to match something
too notice there is size here i could increase the size right now it's full size 125 by 125
it shows me where it's going to be going to also here i'm going to increase the size here uh let's
see if i was putting it into a document like this i was printing it out and putting it somewhere
where people could just walk by and scan it maybe i want a little bit larger there is an
error correction so what this allows you to do is to increase the percentage if you uh that
will help for any error correction but it will make the uh the data of the qr add more data to
it also so i'm just leaving this as 15 and pretty much that's all you have to do is then hit insert
i do want to point out though you can right click on this and i could go and save this as an image
somewhere so if you wanted to just save it as an image it's going to be a png file that you
could save on your computer and you could email it to somebody else there i could also copy the
image from here but i could go now and just hit insert like this and i have that exact same qr
code that i showed you at the beginning with my phone i would hover over it and it would bring
me to my website now i want to point out right at the top here you can do more than just going to
a website with a qr code you could put an email address in so maybe you're doing a presentation
uh you're in powerpoint and you want a quick way for people to email you they could if you change
it to mail to input the email address that's where you would do there and you can even do sms and
there's even custom i do want to point out to just thinking about rather other things than websites
you can go out so if i just open up a document so i showed you the example of a website i could go
to maybe one of my youtube videos so i could just go and copy this right here so if i just go ctrl c
and go back to here i could change it and just paste it in the one thing i want to point out is
if you paste it in with this https you want to get rid of this here so if i just go and delete
this like this and then you can see it will work and if i hit insert now i have another qr code
right here and it's going to go to that one he there you could do other things as well so maybe
you have a pdf in one drive so if i uh went over back here and went to maybe one drive like this
you could pick a document out of your onedrive so this could also be google drive it could be uh
even with dropbox if you're using that if you go ahead and let's say a pdf i could go to this and
select this and maybe i want to share this here i could go i'm going to go back and i'm just going
to hit share and copy link right here so as soon as i copy the link this comes up here make sure
you pick up how you want to want it to be shared so right now anybody with the link can edit this
is a pdf i'm not too worried about that you can change these if you want only want specific people
but i'm going to go ahead and if we didn't allow editing we would take that off but we can go ahead
and cancel copy and then i could go back over to microsoft word and this time i could paste it in
over here so if i just control v it remember i need to get rid of that beginning part here i'm
going to get rid of that and it updates here if i go ahead and insert it i have this one
that will bring me to that pdf and you can do this with other things also remember that if i go
over back and go into my maybe i have an excel with my 365 online i could just copy paste these
here but again permissions matter so if i hit share i could go and copy this link right here
and then do the exact same thing and create a qr code so there's many things that you can create
qr codes here let me show you now with the example on my phone of some of the things that we created
so i just switched over to powerpoint i put those exact same examples in if you take a look under
the insert here you'll notice that the add-ins is exactly the same as microsoft word as i showed you
and it works the same in excel so these are some of the examples that we just made if i go and
open my camera up here and hover over them you can see that that was my website one that i showed you
in the demo and if i go back go back to my camera again and this one was to a document here so this
one when i open this up it brings me to a pdf that i had in my onedrive remember you can do this to
google or dropbox as well so if i go to my camera again this one is just to a youtube video
and i'm just going to go ahead and change back and then this one i changed it to an email so if
you wanted to quickly give out your email where people could scan and it's in a presentation you
could go ahead and do that and then it will open up whatever you have set so those are just some
different examples that i've created remember you can do this in microsoft excel this is all free to
use when you add them and you can remove it if you don't want it on your computer so i hope you like
this tip about how to add qr codes to microsoft word powerpoint or excel let me know if this helps
you out or what you're looking for and i'll be back next week with more tech tips and tutorials