How to insert Flash Movies into PowerPoint slides?

MS PowerPoint is a powerful and interesting tool to express your ideas to others. You can convey ideas in a more effective way, if you use a video clip with a simple slide. Flash movies are usually the best choice to add to the small size of the PowerPoint file.

Follow the steps given to enter the Flash into PowerPoint slides Movies:

Make sure before entering into a PowerPoint slide show Flash Movies that have Flash Player installed on your computer.

First, open the presentation in which you want to insert a Flash movie clip.

Now click on “Toolbar” from the menu “View” option and select “Control Toolbox”.

control-toolbars

Here a small floating menu will appear with the title “Control Toolbox”.

control-toolbars-1

Using “Control Toolbox” toolbar, click on the icon that looks like hammer for more controls and scrolling the objects then choose the object “Shockwave Flash Object”.

Shockwave-Flash

Now using your mouse pointer, draw the box size and position where you want to play a flash movie.

Now right click on box and select the “Properties” option.

properties-flash

A small properties dialog box will appear with different options.

Under the Alphabetic tab, click the option “Movie” and type the full file path of flash movie in blank cell next to Movie (for example d:\flash_file).

movies-properties

Again under same tab, set the property “True” for “Playing” and “EmbedMovie” objects to add and play the flash file automatically with slide. Here you can also set the Quality, Width, Scale and Windows Mode objects for flash file.

movies-properties

Finally close the “Properties” dialog box. Save your PowerPoint presentation and run it for test.

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Posted by I-Guy! on Aug 19th, 2009 and filed under Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response by filling following comment form or trackback to this entry from your site

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