How to insert SWF file into PowerPoint 2003?

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As we know, since Microsoft developed PowerPoint until now, the importance of PowerPoint displayed day by day with the time go on, and the field applied also become wider and wider, such as business, education, medicine and almost every field. However, there are still many people that can not fully take its advantages, the simplest example is how to insert SWF file into PowerPoint. Many people would like to use this function, but the headache is no way to do.

Moyea Software Co. Ltd., as an expert and excelsior of processing PowerPoint slideshow, we always seek the best and widest solutions for people. This article is going to offer a tutorial for people referring to how to insert SWF file to PowerPoint together with this AVI instructions.

• Open PowerPoint and choose Blank Presentation, and then click the OK button.
• Choose a Blank new slide and click the OK button.
• After choose a Blank new slide, it’s time to click the Slide View button on the left-below, so that the Blank new slide can be fully displayed.
• Click the “View” menu in the menu bar, and then choose “Toolbars” in its child menu, later “Control Toolbox” to let “Control Toolbox” displayed.
• Choose the icon with the tools on it.
• Scroll down until you get to Shockwave Flash Object and choose it.
• Then, you’ll get crosshairs, so drag the “+” to a square the size you want your Flash to be.
• Right-click on the dragged square to get the menu for the object, and then choose “Properties” from the listed menu. Later, the “Properties” displayed.
• Find “EmbedMovie” and change the EmbedMovie property from “False” to “True”.
• Then, go out to your system and get the path to your Flash file. Please note that once a Flash file has been chosen, get the path (location) to that file. You can find the path of your chosen SWF file by right-clicking and choosing Properties or from the top “Address” area.
• Copy the Path and write down the name of the Flash file, here it is “FloatingRaindrops.swf”. Then back to PowerPoint.
• Paste the path first after the “Movie” Property (Ctrl+V) and then type in the name of the Flash file after a backslash (\).
• Then, the Flash SWF file has been inserted to your PowerPoint file, and you can close the Properties window.

 

However, please note that you have to be in “SlideShow” mode to view your Flash SWF file. Click icon to get that view or go to the “View” toolbar menu and choose “Slide Show” to view the inserted SWF file.

If know how to insert SWF file to PowerPoint, I am sure that the PowerPoint from your hand would be much more valuable, as the PowerPoint with SWF file would become more intuitionistic and attractive; the contents from it would become richer; so that you can get much more effects from the PowerPoint with Flash SWF file for you teaching presentations, business products introductions, families parties PowerPoint and so on.

By the way, with Moyea PPT to DVD Burner, you can burn your masterpiece PowerPoint which contains SWF file to DVD disc directly, or convert it to video file in any format, such as AVI, WMV, MOV, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, MP3, etc. so that much more value increased and much more effects you can get.