Flash in Powerpoint

[DianaH]

I created a flash file and exported to an swf, then inserted into a
powerpoint slide. I thought I'd followed all the instructions to make it
work, but it won't play.

Are there instructions somewhere else that I could try. Has anyone else had
success with this?

Thanks for any suggestions.
(using PPT 2003).
Diana

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Diana

see
Embed FLASH effects into PowerPoint
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00049.htm


Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[DianaH]

Well Taj,
thank you for that site. certainly interesting. Are they the creators of
the bean people. I use those bean people periodically ... sometimes they
illustrate exactly what I want, when I'm looking for a more playful (but not
too hokey) a look.

When I their instructions ... it occurred to me that I'd done everything
that it said except for one strange thing. I can play all the swf files on
my pc ... except in PPT. The only variable that I hadn't checked was
installing the flash player. It doesn't make sense to me, cuz websites with
swf files will play on my pc and my swf files will play. Anyway, I went to
their site and "low and behold" ... the sample on the site wasn't playing,
so I downloaded/installed it and now the swf in powerpoint plays just fine.
Who'd have guessed that??? It doesn't make sense to me, but I'm glad it's
working.

Thanks again.

 

[CaptAmerica500]

Diana,

I don't know if you still need to do this or if this will help but I was
having the same problem as you before. I could play the swf file anywhere
but the power point. Then I luckly decided to take all the spaces out of the
file name. So it was orginally

' flash presentation.swf '

but I changed the file name to

' flashpresentation.swf '

and it works like a charm everytime now. Don't know if that helps but I
hope it does.