How To

Insert a Flash animation into MS Powerpoint 2003 & 2007

To play a Flash file in your Powerpoint 2003 slideshow...

1. Install the Macromedia Flash Player (click to download it) on your computer.
2. In normal view in PowerPoint, display the slide on which you want to play the animation.
3. On the View menu, point to Toolbars , and then click Control Toolbox .
4. In the Control Toolbox , click More Controls (the button with the hammer and wrench icon).
5. In the list, scroll down and click Shockwave Flash Object , then drag on the slide to draw the control. You can resize the control by dragging the sizing handles.
6. Right-click the Shockwave Flash Object, and then click Properties .
7. On the Alphabetic tab, click the Movie property.
8. In the value column (the blank cell next to Movie ), type the full drive path including the file name (for example, C\:My Documents\MyFile.swf) or Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to the Flash file that you want to play.
9. To set specific options for how the animation plays, do the following, and when you're done, close the Properties dialog box:
   • Make sure the Playing property is set to True . This plays the file automatically when the slide is displayed. If the Flash file has a Start/Rewind control built into it, the Playing setting can be set to False .
   • If you don't want the animation to play repeatedly, in the Loop property, select False (click the cell to get a down arrow, click the arrow, and select False ).
   • To embed the Flash file so you can pass this presentation on to others, in the EmbedMovie property, click True. (In order for the Flash file to run, however, the Shockwave Flash Object control must be registered on any computer that runs this presentation.

Add a Flash file to a Powerpoint 2007 presentation

1. Install the Flash Player on your computer.
2. In PowerPoint, in Normal view, display the slide on which you want to play the animation.
3. Click the Microsoft Office Button , and then click PowerPoint Options.
4. Click Popular, and then under Top options for working with PowerPoint, select the Show Developer tab in the Ribbon check box, and then click OK.
5. On the Developer tab, in the Controls group, click More Controls.
6. In the list of controls, click Shockwave Flash Object, click OK, and then drag on the slide to draw the control.

   Resize the control by dragging the sizing handles.

7. Right-click the Shockwave Flash Object, and then click Properties.
8. On the Alphabetic tab, click the Movie property.
9. In the value column (the blank cell next to Movie), type the full drive path, including the file name (for example, C\:MyFile.swf) or uniform resource locator (URL) to the Flash file that you want to play.
10. To set specific options for how the animation plays, do the following, and then close the Properties dialog box:
    • To play the file automatically when the slide is displayed, set the Playing property to True. If the Flash file has a Start/Rewind control built into it, you can set the Playing property to False.
    • If you don't want the animation to play repeatedly, set the Loop property to False.
    • To embed the Flash file so that you can share the presentation with others, set the EmbedMovie property to True. (For the Flash file to run, however, the Shockwave Flash Object control must be registered on any computer that runs the presentation.)