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=== Inserting links to audio and video resources in a text document (''LibreOffice Writer'') ===
 
=== Inserting links to audio and video resources in a text document (''LibreOffice Writer'') ===
 
You cannot insert an audio or a video into your document itself (though you could insert / embed an image in your text document). However you can provide a hyper-link to the audio file or video file in your computer, to the document. Clicking on this link will play the audio or video.
 
You cannot insert an audio or a video into your document itself (though you could insert / embed an image in your text document). However you can provide a hyper-link to the audio file or video file in your computer, to the document. Clicking on this link will play the audio or video.
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We will insert a hyper-link to the audio interview with an expert on Digital Storytelling in our 'Learning Digital Story Telling.odt'. We will open our  'Learning Digital Story Telling.odt' file. In this file we will create a section 'Interview with an expert on digital storytelling' and enter the text
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"An interview with an expert on digital storytelling is available here". We will select the text 'here' and then select Insert -> Hyperlink. We will get a form, which allows us to provide a hyperlink to another file. On the left side of the form, there are four icons for Internet, Mail, Document and New Document, which allows us to link to a web page on the world wide web, an email, a file in our computer, or to a section of the current document, respectively.
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We will click on the 'Document' icon on the left side and this will open a form on the right side, asking us to specify the 'path' where the file is saved. Clicking on this 'path' icon, will open the file browser. We will select the file by browsing our computer and then click on 'OK'. The text 'here' is now displayed as a hyperlink. If you 'control-click' on this link (that is press control and simaltaneously press the mouse left click), the link will play the audio file on your computer.
    
Inserting a link to a video file on your computer, will follow an identical process.
 
Inserting a link to a video file on your computer, will follow an identical process.

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