Adding a little of interactivity and animation to your powepoint presentation can greatly ease sending your message to your audiance. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you in very easy steps how to add flash swf files to your Powerpoint slides.
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1: The first step is to display the control panel that enables you to add Flash. In the menu of MS Powerpoint, as shown in Fig 1: Go to: View > Toolbars > Visual Basic The visual Basic panel will appear as shown below:
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Click on the "Control Toolbox" and the Control Toolbox panel will appear, as shown in Fig 2.
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In the Control Toolbox panel, click on More Controls, a list of controls will appear, scroll down and select Shockwave Flash Object, as shown in fig 3. |
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Selecting the Shockwave Flash Object in the previous step will place a small box in your slide, as shown in Fig 5.
The Properties Panel will appear.
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In the Properties panel, you can set the dimensions of your movie and change many other parameters.
Most importantly, set the path to your flash swf file in the MovieData field and press Enter.
That's it!
Your flash movie is now embedded into your powerpoint slide. Opening your powerpoint slides on another computer will bring up a message stating whether you would like to enable Macros or not. Enable the Macro and you're all done.
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