User Guide

Using Sound and Movies
You can add audio—a music le, a playlist from your iTunes library, or any other sound
le—to a Numbers spreadsheet. You can also add video that plays within a sheet.
Numbers accepts any QuickTime or iTunes le type, including the following:
MOV Â
MP3 Â
MPEG-4 Â
AIFF Â
AAC Â
Also note that some media les are protected under copyright law. Some downloaded
music may be played only on the computer where the download occurred. Make sure
the computer you are using has permission to play all the media les included in your
spreadsheet.
When you add media les to your spreadsheet, make sure that they will be available
if you transfer your document to another computer. When saving your document,
select the option “Copy audio and movies into document” in the Save window. (If you
don’t see the option, click the button next to the Save eld to display the entire Save
window, and then click the Advanced Options disclosure triangle.)
To learn how to Go to
Add audio to a spreadsheet “Adding a Sound File” on page 206
Add a movie “Adding a Movie File” on page 207
Add a picture frame around a movie “Placing a Picture Frame Around a Movie” on
page 208
Specify settings that control how audio and
movie les play
“Adjusting Media Playback Settings” on page 208
Remove unused portions of audio and movie les
from a spreadsheet
“Reducing the Size of Media Files” on page 209
Adding a Sound File
Here are ways to add sound to a spreadsheet:
Drag a sound le from the Finder anywhere onto a sheet or to a media placeholder. m
Click Media in the toolbar, choose iTunes from the pop-up menu, select a playlist, and m
then drag a le or playlist anywhere onto a sheet or to a media placeholder.
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