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Guest
Can I insert a Flash file (swf) into PowerPoint? If so...how?
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Echo S
Waynec704 said:
Yes.
Turn on the developer tab in Office Button | PPT Options | Popular. Then
follow the instructions at http://www.flashgeek.com
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Guest
Maybe it's a little complicated to do so....
You can follow my guide of inserting Flash into PowerPoint 2007:
http://www.sameshow.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2590
I hope this could help ya.
You can follow my guide of inserting Flash into PowerPoint 2007:
http://www.sameshow.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2590
I hope this could help ya.
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Guest
Or instead of going to www.sameansweragain you could just go to the original
site!!
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA012303211033.aspx
site!!
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA012303211033.aspx
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Hi All - I'm sorry to have to say something negative, especially since I'm
such a massive fan of PowerPoint (I use it for all my teaching and other
presentations), but I've recently switched to 2007 and in terms of dealing
with Flash animations, it's a tremendous step backward in terms of
friendliness! I use Flash animations that come with the textbooks I use for
teaching; these came preset in PowerPoint slides that I previously, in
PowerPoint 2003, could just copy and paste (the whole slide) directly into my
teaching presentations. WHen I do this in 2007, the slide seems to be fine
until I close my presentation...when I reopen it, the slide is just a big
white rectangle with a thin black X through it and it does not function. I
have followed the instructions in the PowerPoint 2007 Help, as well as the
similar instructions at
http://www.flashppt.com/blog/2007/08/insert-control-powerpoint-2007.html, but
since these Flash animations were never standalone objects to begin with,
there's no file to which I can direct 2007! But even if I did, it is an
absolutely huge inconvenience to have to go through all that rigamarole to
get a Flash animation to work! Why on Earth was the simple "cut 'n' paste"
ability eliminated from 2007? And can it be reinstated in a future
update...please?!?
such a massive fan of PowerPoint (I use it for all my teaching and other
presentations), but I've recently switched to 2007 and in terms of dealing
with Flash animations, it's a tremendous step backward in terms of
friendliness! I use Flash animations that come with the textbooks I use for
teaching; these came preset in PowerPoint slides that I previously, in
PowerPoint 2003, could just copy and paste (the whole slide) directly into my
teaching presentations. WHen I do this in 2007, the slide seems to be fine
until I close my presentation...when I reopen it, the slide is just a big
white rectangle with a thin black X through it and it does not function. I
have followed the instructions in the PowerPoint 2007 Help, as well as the
similar instructions at
http://www.flashppt.com/blog/2007/08/insert-control-powerpoint-2007.html, but
since these Flash animations were never standalone objects to begin with,
there's no file to which I can direct 2007! But even if I did, it is an
absolutely huge inconvenience to have to go through all that rigamarole to
get a Flash animation to work! Why on Earth was the simple "cut 'n' paste"
ability eliminated from 2007? And can it be reinstated in a future
update...please?!?
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Echo S
You might try opening Internet Explorer and going to the Adobe site and
updating the Flash Player (the IE plug-in). I think there have been some
improvements to it lately that will correct the problem you're seeing. (It's
where the control PPT relies on actually comes from.)
updating the Flash Player (the IE plug-in). I think there have been some
improvements to it lately that will correct the problem you're seeing. (It's
where the control PPT relies on actually comes from.)
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Guest
You might try opening Internet Explorer and going to the Adobe site and
No go, unfortunately -- they're current, but the same problem occurs.
It's actually two problems: first, when I cut 'n' paste the slides containing
the flash animations anew, they'll only work if I go in manually into the
"Properties" of the animation and set its "Playing" to "True" and if I enter
its location on my hard drive exactly (I managed to get the stand-alone flash
files from the book publisher). This is a pain in the patookus for two
reasons: (1) I use a lot of these and it will be a fair amount of work to go
in and do them all, and (2) these presentations get used on multiple
computers, not all of which have the same file directory pathways, which
means that I cannot just copy a presentation to another computer and have it
work unless I go in and reset ITS pathway for each computer.
The second problem is that when I open one of my older PowerPoint 2003
presentations that has one of these in it -- specifically, where I opened the
publisher's pre-made PowerPoint slide with the flash already embedded, copied
the whole slide, and pasted it directly into my own presentation -- in 2007,
the initial animation screen appears, but the animation never plays, and none
of the buttons on it are clickable -- if, for example, I try to click on the
"Play" button in the slide show, the presentation simply advances to the next
slide. Moreover, however, I cannot even select the animation (in order to
right click on it and access its "Properties") in the editing window. It
appears that my only recourse is to delete the slide, create a new one,
insert the animation again, and reset its "Properties." As I opined before,
this is a significant inconvenience because I use a lot of these, and on
multiple computers. Oh, how I long for the simple "cut 'n' paste" with
automatic embedding (that allowed the slides to work on any computer!) from
2003... This is, however, the only real issue I have discovered with 2007.
No go, unfortunately -- they're current, but the same problem occurs.
It's actually two problems: first, when I cut 'n' paste the slides containing
the flash animations anew, they'll only work if I go in manually into the
"Properties" of the animation and set its "Playing" to "True" and if I enter
its location on my hard drive exactly (I managed to get the stand-alone flash
files from the book publisher). This is a pain in the patookus for two
reasons: (1) I use a lot of these and it will be a fair amount of work to go
in and do them all, and (2) these presentations get used on multiple
computers, not all of which have the same file directory pathways, which
means that I cannot just copy a presentation to another computer and have it
work unless I go in and reset ITS pathway for each computer.
The second problem is that when I open one of my older PowerPoint 2003
presentations that has one of these in it -- specifically, where I opened the
publisher's pre-made PowerPoint slide with the flash already embedded, copied
the whole slide, and pasted it directly into my own presentation -- in 2007,
the initial animation screen appears, but the animation never plays, and none
of the buttons on it are clickable -- if, for example, I try to click on the
"Play" button in the slide show, the presentation simply advances to the next
slide. Moreover, however, I cannot even select the animation (in order to
right click on it and access its "Properties") in the editing window. It
appears that my only recourse is to delete the slide, create a new one,
insert the animation again, and reset its "Properties." As I opined before,
this is a significant inconvenience because I use a lot of these, and on
multiple computers. Oh, how I long for the simple "cut 'n' paste" with
automatic embedding (that allowed the slides to work on any computer!) from
2003... This is, however, the only real issue I have discovered with 2007.
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Echo S
I don't know, then, dinogami, sorry. I do know that I couldn't play SWFs in
PPT 2007, but then around July 4th, they worked fine. I thought it was
because Adobe updated the player control, but maybe it was just a fluke? It
is definitely a pain in the patookus, though!
PPT 2007, but then around July 4th, they worked fine. I thought it was
because Adobe updated the player control, but maybe it was just a fluke? It
is definitely a pain in the patookus, though!