FlashPPT

Assemble Everything

Before you start inserting your Flash movie on a PowerPoint slide, you should follow these good practices to assemble all the stuff:

1. First of all, make sure that you have all the four prerequisites in place.
2. Place your saved PowerPoint presentation in a new or existing folder. Copy your Flash SWF file to this folder.

   If you need to insert the Flash SWF file into a new presentation, then save the Flash SWF file into a new folder. Then create a new presentation and save it in this folder.

3. If the presentation is not open, launch PowerPoint, open the presentation and navigate to the slide where you want to insert a Flash SWF movie.
4. Thereafter, the process in which you insert the Flash SWF will differ a little if you use PowerPoint 2007 or a previous version of PowerPoint.

If you use a version of PowerPoint that’s pre-2007, proceed here…

PowerPoint 2007 users should proceed here…

Filed Under: 2007, Flash, Insert, PowerPoint

Insert Flash in PowerPoint for Windows Users

Get Started With These Four:

To insert Flash movies inside PowerPoint, you need four things:

1. Microsoft Office PowerPoint: A copy of PowerPoint 97, 2000, 2002, 2003, or 2007 (or a newer version). This will not work in the free PowerPoint Viewer.
2. Microsoft Internet Explorer: Although you really don’t need this in the process of inserting Flash, it is required since this takes care of the ActiveX runtimes. Most versions of Windows come with Internet Explorer built-in. You can always get the latest version here…
3. Shockwave Flash ActiveX Control: This is a helper application that allows Microsoft Internet Explorer and other applications that can interact with ActiveX controls to show Flash movies. PowerPoint is one such application that can rely on the Shockwave Flash ActiveX control to play Flash movies on PowerPoint slides.

   Your copy of Microsoft Internet Explorer probably already has this ActiveX control installed, but since this is frequently updated, you should visit the Adobe site and check.

   The Shockwave Flash ActiveX control can be auto-installed at:

   www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?
   P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

   Since this control installs on its own, make sure you visit the above link using Microsoft Internet Explorer — the Flash plug-in for Firefox is not the same, at least not in this case!

   If you need to view more options, visit:

   www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/alternates/

4. A Flash SWF Movie/File: If you don’t have any Flash clips, you can get some here…

The next thing you need to do is assemble everything in one folder…

PowerPoint 2007 users also need to enable the Developer tab in the Ribbon… — if the Developer tab is already visible for you, proceed to assemble everything in one folder…

Filed Under: Flash, Insert, PowerPoint

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Microsoft Internet Explorer (also known as Windows Internet Explorer in newer versions of Windows) is the default graphical internet browser built into most versions of Windows.

Microsoft Internet Explorer can view static and dynamic web pages, and several graphic file formats including JPEGs, GIFs, and PNGs. In addition, it allows you to view various other file formats using helper applications. These helper applications were called browser plug-ins in very old versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, but Microsoft evolved the helper applications to a new technology called ActiveX.

You can download the latest version of Internet Explorer here…

Getting back to ActiveX, the Shockwave Flash ActiveX Control is the most well known of all controls.

Filed Under: Glossary

ActiveX

ActiveX is the successor to OLE 1 and OLE 2. In clear cut, unambiguous terms, this means that ActiveX is a technology that allows components, clients or controls to run individually integrated in another application.

The control could be a Shockwave Flash control. The applications are usually web browsers like Microsoft Internet Explorer. Alternatively they can be any program which has the ability to communicate with an ActiveX control. In our case, this program happens to be Microsoft PowerPoint.

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Filed Under: Glossary
Tagged as: ActiveX