embedding flash into ppt

[gail]

I've been embedding flash into my presentations for years but have been
trying to figure it out in 07 for the last couple days without luck. have
they done anything different? i'm following instructions, flipping the
"embed" to true, and it still doesn't want to put the movie inside flash so
that it goes with the ppt. is there a size limit? these movies are 5-10 mb's.
It didn't make a diffence before but maybe now? i'm perplexed. thanks

 

[Sandy Johnson]

Sorry Gail, you can't embed Flash in PPT 2007. You have to treat it like a
movie with links.

Sandy

 

[Geetesh Bajaj]

Mainly you want to place your Flash SWF in the same folder as the PowerPoint
presentation, and not set Embed to true since a security feature in
PowerPoint 2007 does not let you embed any external content within a
PowerPoint 2007 PPTX file -- but you can still do that within the older PPT
file format.

You'll find more detailed info at:

http://www.flashppt.com/blog/2009/07/embedded-flash-does-not-work-on-another.html

Have a great day.

--
Geetesh Bajaj, Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
http://www.indezine.com
http://www.ppted.com

I've been embedding flash into my presentations for years but have been
trying to figure it out in 07 for the last couple days without luck. have
they done anything different? i'm following instructions, flipping the
"embed" to true, and it still doesn't want to put the movie inside flash
so
that it goes with the ppt. is there a size limit? these movies are 5-10
mb's.
It didn't make a diffence before but maybe now? i'm perplexed. thanks

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[Landy]

You will need to "upgrade" to PP2003 if you want to do that. One of the
many reasons I will never go to 2007.
cheers
Bill

 

[gail]

Thanks everyone for your answers. Geesh, what was microsoft thinking? My ppts
often go from one person to another. Slides often get pulled from one talk
and placed into another, especially videos for training. the 07version has
lost a lot of practicality!

 

[Jean-Pierre Forestier [MVP[]

You sure you didn't move the flash file to another folder?

 

[Echo S]

The hapless users, that'd be us, can only resort to a slightly different

form of
finger gesture.

LOL!

Ain't *that* the truth?!

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[Landy]

And yet, pp2007 will play flash embedded using pp2003 without the swf files
separately available. Mind you, there has to be the same version of flash
player installed on the pc in question.
cheers
Bill

 

[charlene qu]

I've been embedding flash into my presentations for years but have been
trying to figure it out in 07 for the last couple days without luck. have
they done anything different? i'm following instructions, flipping the
"embed" to true, and it still doesn't want to put the movie inside flash so
that it goes with the ppt. is there a size limit? these movies are 5-10 mb's.
It didn't make a diffence before but maybe now? i'm perplexed. thanks

Here comes a tutorial for inserting flash in powerpoint 07:
http://acoolsoft.com/support/powerpointzone/Insert-SWF-File-in-PowerPoint.html
Hope it can help you.