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How to find Online Pictures and add 3D Models that are rotating pictures.

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Online Pics and 3D Models

This new feature of inserting online pictures in Word - Office 365 takes you directly to the internet without leaving the Word program.  It eliminates an entire process of confusing clicks.

When to use

When you are looking for any picture but do not have the right one in your own files, simply go to Online Pictures and find one that works for your project.  And the 3D Models are rotating pictures that you can adjust accordingly in your document. Maybe you are a teacher or a scientist, these are ideal for getting the exact view of a picture you need.

Instructions

Here's how to insert "Online Pictures":

  1. Click the Insert Ribbon
  2. Click Online Pictures
  3. Select a category and choose a picture that you would like to use.
  4. Click Insert

Note: by checking the box beside "Creative Commons" you ensure that the picture you choose has been approved for re-use, therefore no copyright infringement.

Here's how to insert "3D Models":

  1. Click the Insert Ribbon
  2. Click 3D Models
  3. Select a category and choose a 3D Model that you would like to use.
  4. Click Insert
  5. Click the inside section of the model, you'll see an internal spinner icon, then click and drag to spin the 3D model as you see fit.
  7. To change the overall size of the model, click the Pan and Zoom button on the new 3D Model Tools ribbon and select the new magnifying glass tool beside the outline handles on the model.
       

Note: the 3D models are incredibly large sizes and your document's file size will balloon!  Instead of emailing these documents, it may be necessary to load them to a cloud drive or computer server to share.

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  • 00:05 A new feature added by Microsoft in the Word 2019 is on the insert ribbon,
  • 00:09 online pictures and 3D models and these are both fabulous.
  • 00:13 So let's go ahead first and start with online pictures.
  • 00:16 When I click that, it takes me out to Bing, Powered by Bing.
  • 00:20 You need to know that Microsoft owns Bing.
  • 00:22 It is a Microsoft product.
  • 00:24 I'll go ahead and click on Apple.
  • 00:26 And when this comes up, notice we do have a check mark here in Creative Commons.
  • 00:29 That simply means, copyright free.
  • 00:32 You are free to use any of these in any of your own publications, whatever you want.
  • 00:37 Now the moment I uncheck Creative Commons, now it searched the entire Internet.
  • 00:42 And at this point,
  • 00:42 I may be breaking a copyright rule if I use this particular apple, right?
  • 00:47 So let's just make sure you do have a check mark in the Creative Commons.
  • 00:50 And now go ahead and choose any apple you want, and
  • 00:52 hit Insert, and in it drops a perfect apple.
  • 00:55 Much easier than me leaving the Word program, going to the Internet,
  • 00:59 searching for a nice apple to display on the screen.
  • 01:03 They've just eased up the whole process by putting that online pics.
  • 01:07 Okay, I'm gonna break the page, Ctrl+Enter for a new page, and
  • 01:11 I want to show you the 3D model, here we go.
  • 01:14 On the insert ribbon, we have the option for 3D models.
  • 01:16 When I click on this, here are all the categories.
  • 01:20 And let's just say for a moment that I'm a biology instructor and
  • 01:23 I want to give the kids an exam on plant cells.
  • 01:26 So I'm gonna go ahead and click this plant cell, hit Insert.
  • 01:30 Now, when this comes in, I've decided that I wanna ask two questions about
  • 01:34 a plant cell, but I want two different angles of the plant cell.
  • 01:38 So I'm just going to find one 3D model of it, and
  • 01:41 then I will copy it and paste it and just align them right next to each other.
  • 01:46 But check out what I'm gonna do to this second one.
  • 01:49 See this internal spinner?
  • 01:51 I'm just gonna click and drag and spin it around, and
  • 01:54 maybe ask questions from a different angle.
  • 01:56 I could click on this one and maybe spin it around as well.
  • 02:00 Okay, so that is a beauty of using the same picture, but
  • 02:04 showing a different angle of it.
  • 02:06 All right, let's go ahead and
  • 02:07 bring in another one that I found when I was practicing this insert 3D Models.
  • 02:12 And this time, I'm gonna go Animated Animals and I'm gonna go for
  • 02:15 this school of fish here and hit Insert.
  • 02:17 It takes a little while for this to drop in because our file size is quite large.
  • 02:22 When you're bringing in these movable 3D models,
  • 02:26 what was a 50KB file will become a 60MB file.
  • 02:31 So keep that in mind when you need to upload, it's gonna take a little
  • 02:35 time to upload to the cloud or whoever you're going to share it with.
  • 02:38 I probably wouldn't email these, probably just upload them.
  • 02:42 All right, here is the school of fish.
  • 02:44 Now notice, I got a brand new ribbon up there, 3D Model Tools, and
  • 02:47 right over here is an option that says, Pan & Zoom.
  • 02:50 When I click the Pan & Zoom, I get a little tiny magnifying glass here,
  • 02:55 click and drag, and it literally zooming up, now the fish are leaving the square.
  • 03:01 I can of course, resize the square, I can zoom back down, and
  • 03:05 I can still spin around and rearrange the fish however I want them to be swimming.
  • 03:11 Now, I have tested this already.
  • 03:14 I closed the file, and I reopened it just to see,
  • 03:17 do those fish still swim when it opens back up?
  • 03:20 And yes, they do, how great is this.
  • 03:23 Now this is in Word, Publisher, Excel, PowerPoint you can use this.
  • 03:26 But please, let's learn the lesson right now.
  • 03:28 I clicked on the file, and it does say 201 kilobytes.
  • 03:32 So let me go back and then I hit Save, and
  • 03:36 now I'm gonna go back to File again, File and 61 MB.
  • 03:42 My goodness, that's a big file size.
  • 03:44 All right, that's it for the lesson on online pics and 3D models.
  • 03:48 Have fun with it, you'll get lost in there.
  • 03:51 Thank you.

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