A blogger
often finds the need to attach a Microsoft Office document file or PDF to a
blog post. Embedding is the perfect solution to this but Blogger, being a free
platform doesn’t provide its user with a lot of direct options here as opposed
to the several other platforms that come with a price tag. Blogger wouldn't let
you directly embed a PDF, DOC, XLS or PPT file and so we'll be looking at an
indirect way that can get the job done really nicely and yes, it'd still
technically be called embedding. A simple blogging trick would even let you
embed music players to your blogger blog.
PDF, DOC,
XLS and PPT are among the most used containers of information and hence are
used almost everywhere a computer table is found. Such a file might also
sometime be needed to embed in a blog post. Instead of writing the whole
extensive document as text in your post, you could embed that document file on
your blog which will not only make it look neat but will also be easy for the
reader to read. So let's take a look at how to embed these files to your
Blogger blog.
In order to
embed almost anything to Blogger, the HTML iframe tag is your best friend. If
it is a file you want to embed from some other website or online source, all
you have to do is add the html code in the right place. iframe basically allows
you to display a web page within a web page, using this property of its' you
can easily embed a Microsoft Office/PDF file in your blog post. Here is how you
can do that:
Go to the
HTML section of your post.
Locate the
point in your post where you want your file to be embedded.
Add the
following iframe code
<iframe
src="yourURLhere" width="570" height="400"
></iframe>
Replace
yourURLhere with the web address of the file you want to embed in your post.
You can set the height and width of the frame as required.
What
if your file isn't available online?
You can
make it available online by using Google Drive by uploading that required file
from your computer to Google Drive and then use the above mentioned method to
embed it to your post. Here's what you'll need to do:
Go to
drive.google.com and Sign-in with your Google account
Upload your
file to Google drive
Set the
permissions
The
permissions here refer to the file access which is by-default private on Google
Drive i.e. only the uploader has the access to a file. You'll be needing to
change that for sure.
Right click
on the uploaded file and select Share
A dialogue
box will appear with the file URL and a list of users who have access to the
file. Click on Change in the Who has access panel
Select
‘Anyone with the link’ from the dialogue box and hit Save
Now use
that URL of the file and embed it to your blogger post anywhere you desire.
Below is a DOC embedded onto the blog post directly from Google Drive.
So how did
it go? We're sure you were easily able to embed the several types of files to
your Blogger blog using the steps mentioned. However, if you've got any
question or confusion in mind, drop it below in the comments section.
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