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This software has been professionally developed by
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software used by some of the world's leading companies. Working with
companies ranging in size from 1,000 to 150,000 employees spread across
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In addition, this software has been digitally signed (with a third party commercial signature) to ensure that it is Spyware and virus-free, and can also be used with the Microsoft Office security setting set at maximum.
This tool is compatible with Windows running PowerPoint: 2000, XP and 2003.
Basic overview of the tools within the Flash Toolbar
Insert flash movie
Inserts a flash movie with a single click and allows you to set any
'insert' option, e.g. auto-play, embed movie, background colour, etc.
Loop flash movie /
Un-loop flash movie
Click once on the icon and it will change the default play setting of the
flash movie to play once or play continuously.
Set flash movie to play automatically /
Set flash movie to manual play
Click once on the icon and it will change the default play setting of the
flash movie, either to play as soon as the slide is displayed during a
presentation, or to wait until the user clicks on the movie.
Create a static image slide of the flash movie slide (for print or email)
Allows you to convert the flash movie into a series of still images that
can be printed or emailed.
Rewind all flash movies within the presentation
Click once on the icon and the tool will loop through the presentation
slide-by-slide, checking for flash movies, and then rewind them all to the
beginning.
Movie settings
Click once on the icon and it will display all the flash movie settings.
Remove flash movies and macros
Click once on the icon and the tool will loop through the presentation
slide-by-slide checking for flash movies and macros, it will then remove
both. This may be required if you intend to email the presentation.
Automatic Play-Back
Once the Flash Toolbar has been installed, it will automatically watch all
presentations to see if flash has been used. If so, and the flash movie
has not been correctly rewound, it will automatically rewind the flash
movie. This corrects a common problem/limitation of a flash movie
not rewinding to the beginning during a presentation, but starting from
the point at which it was last stopped.
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Install Flash Toolbar.exe
When installing from the web, you should see two pop-up boxes asking if you wish to 'Run' the installer, in both cases click the 'Run' button, then follow the onscreen instructions. If you are unable to install directly from the web, then you can use the link below to download the Flash Toolbar.ppa and manually load it.
To download and manually install, click the link
below:
Download Flash Toolbar.ppa zipped file.
Once downloaded you will need to unzip the Add-in and
then load the Add-in,
as explained in the
illustrated step-by-step guide to installing PowerPoint Add-ins.
Purchasing the fully working version of the Flash Toolbar
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Full details of the Flash Toolbars tools
Insert flash
When the tool icon is clicked, a standard Microsoft dialogue box appears,
allowing you to select a movie.
Once a movie has been selected, the Insert Movie Tool's settings dialogue box appears. The default options have been pre-selected so that you can simply click 'OK'. However, if you wish, you can review or change any of the available settings. (All settings are shown below.)
Loop flash movie /
Un-loop flash movie
This tool allows you to select a flash movie and change the play setting of the movie to stop playing once it has played, or to play continuously in a loop.
To aid usability, the user can use this tool by selecting an individual movie or by simply selecting complete slides. The latter is often required when a movie is hidden under other presentation objects or is part of a group.
Please note: the tool will always set the play options to loop or un-loop, but not all movies have been built in such a way as to allow them to loop, e.g., they may have a in-built command to hold on to the second to last frame, and as such, will never reach the end of the movie.
Set flash movie to play automatically /
Set flash movie to manual play
Click once on the icon and it will change the default play setting of the flash movie to play as soon as the slide is displayed during a presentation or to wait until it is clicked on.
To aid usability, the user can use this tool by selecting an individual movie or by simply selecting complete slides. The latter is often required when a movie is hidden under other presentation objects or is part of a group.
Please note: the tool will always set the play options to automatic, but not all movies have been built in such a way as to allow them to play this way, e.g., they might have an in-built command to hold on to the first screen until the user clicks a button within the movie.
Create a static image slide of the flash movie slide (for print or email)
Allows you to convert the flash movie into a series of still images that can be printed or emailed. This tool allows the user to select a slide which contains a flash movie and to create a single slide or a range of slides, where the original slide has been duplicated and the flash movie has been replaced with a static image (jpeg). The user can then choose to make a single image, or specify a set frame number, or give a timed delay, or to ask that the movie is spread over a number of slides, or to manually play the movie and hit the 'Ctrl' to create a static duplicate at that position. (All settings shown below.)
To aid usability, the user can use this tool by selecting an individual movie or by simply selecting complete slides. The latter is often required when a movie is hidden under other presentation objects or is part of a group.
An original sample slide in PowerPoint which
contains a flash movie slide.
A range of duplicated slides are created by the
tool, showing frames from the flash movie which have been converted to
jpeg images.
Rewind all flash movies within the presentation
Click once on the icon and the tool will loop through the presentation slide-by-slide checking for flash movies, then rewind them all to the beginning.
This can be used to manually ensure that all flash movies have the correct starting point before giving a presentation.
To aid usability, the user can use this tool by selecting an individual movie or by simply selecting complete slides. The latter is often required when a movie is hidden under other presentation objects or is part of a group.
Remove flash movie and macros
Click once on the icon and the tool will loop through the presentation
slide by slide checking for flash movies and macros, it will then remove
both.
This may be required if you plan to email a copy of a presentation to a client because:
The size of embedded flash movies makes it impractical to email them. The movie can be replaced with a static image by first using the static image tool.
The presentation contains macros, often connected to flash movie use. It is now common practice for most corporate email servers to reject incoming documents which contain macros, as they maybe harmful or contain viruses.
To aid usability and prevent unintentional deletion, after the user has clicked the icon, they will be warned that the tool will delete all movies and macros and be asked to confirm whether they wish to continue.
Automatic
Play-Back
Once the Flash Toolbar has been installed, it will automatically watch all
presentations to see whether flash has been used. If so, and the flash
movie has not been correctly rewound, it will automatically rewind the
flash. This corrects a common problem/limitation of flash movies not
rewinding to their beginning during a presentation, but starting to play
from the point at which they were last stopped.
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Integrating a Flash movie inside PowerPoint allows vector animation and interactivity to be added to a PowerPoint presentation. This strategy can be used to increase the performance and impact of the piece. The information provided in this was tested with the Office 2000 version of Microsoft PowerPoint. Earlier versions may vary from the steps shown here. Please note that Macromedia Technical Support cannot answer questions to Flash playing inside external applications such as PowerPoint. When viewing Flash content in Windows using Internet Explorer, Flash Player content is played using an ActiveX control. ActiveX is a Microsoft technology consisting of 'controls' that sit on top of a Windows subsystem called COM (Component Object Model). For detailed information on ActiveX controls see Microsoft's ActiveX pages. ActiveX controls are used to extend the abilities of Windows and Internet Explorer, adding features such as video playback, audio and Flash playback. Each control handles a specific type of functionality. When a control is needed for a certain type of playback, it is automatically downloaded from a secure; the control installs itself, and then becomes available to Windows. This allows Windows to acquire new functionality by adding a small binary file, without reinstalling or restarting the operating system. The advantage of ActiveX controls is that although they are generally downloaded and used in Internet Explorer, once they exist on your system any Windows application that understands COM can use the controls to extend their applications. One of the popular uses for this technology is embedding a functional ActiveX controlled Flash movie inside a PowerPoint presentation. Why Flash in PowerPoint? PowerPoint 2000 supports numerous import types including AVI movies and animated GIFs. However, these imports are fairly static, and can have large file sizes. Using a Flash movie inside PowerPoint adds interactivity and vector animation to the PowerPoint presentation, with little increase in file size. Embedding a Flash movie allows all the functionality of Flash: buttons will function, Get URL actions will open the default browser, and animations will tween. If the Flash ActiveX control r25 (or higher) is installed, the Flash movie can even be printed. Requiring the ActiveX control. Note: Using Flash in PowerPoint requires the Flash ActiveX control to be installed on the machine which will be viewing the PowerPoint content. If that machine is using Internet Explorer 4 or higher and can view Flash then the ActiveX control is automatically installed. If you have direct access to the playback machine you can check for the control's parent file by searching the system drive for 'swflash.ocx'. If you do not have access to the machine the presentation will be playing on, it is highly recommended to license and distribute the Flash ActiveX control alongside your presentation. The control must be installed on the playback machine before your presentation can run. The Flash ActiveX control can be licensed at no charge for distribution on secure intranets or CD-ROM's. See Macromedia's Flash Player Licensing Overview for detailed information. Embedding the Flash content in PowerPoint once you've considered the handling of the ActiveX control you can proceed to add the Flash content to PowerPoint. Choosing Shockwave Flash Object from the list of controls will change the cursor to a crosshair. Move the cursor over the slide. Click and drag to define the area the Flash movie will play in. The Flash movie can take up as much of the screen as you wish. After creating the Flash "window", right-click on the window. Choose "Properties" from the pop-up to open the Flash object control properties. Choose "..." to the right of ‘Custom’. This opens the Page Properties dialog for the Flash control. In the Page Properties dialog enter the path or URL to the SWF you wish to use. If the SWF is in the same directory as the PowerPoint file just enter the SWF name. The SWF can also be at any valid URL network address. PowerPoint FAQ Rainbow do I change the default colors? What happened to Recolor Picture in PowerPoint 97? Is there a limit to the number of guides you can have? How do I make my own PowerPoint backgrounds? (Templates) How do I create additional pre-set color fills? Pictures & Other Imported Files My pictures turned to Big Red X's--what happened? Any utilities that will replace bitmaps in bulk in PPT? How can I put Flash or Shockwave files into my presentation? How do I make bitmaps and captures screens display well in slide show? Can the WMF format be converted to GIF? 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Why do my movies start and end with black boxes? How can I make PowerPoint load embedded sound files more quickly? Any way to play a Sound and Animation simultaneously? Printing Is there a way to control how slide print in black and white? Any way to keep some slides from printing? How do I print giant posters from PowerPoint? Any way to print a catalo of slides with titles and file names? Why is my bulleted text printing differently from how it looks on screen? Formatting Is there a way to adjust "kerning" or "tracking" in PowerPoint? How can I get Word tables to look good in PowerPoint? How do I get graphs to look right when the file is transferred to the Mac? Any way to have more than two masters, like Persuasion? Why do my Org Charts keep falling apart? How do I change PowerPoint's ruler from Metric to US? Why are all my slides black and white? What happened to the colors? Any way to change the presentation design of individual slides? Is there anyone who makes an Indexing Tool for PowerPoint presentations? How do I make a new Title Master? How do I make a slide use the Title Master and not the Slide Master? Saving, Using, Editing & Opening Presentation Files Which versions of PowerPoint can open/save which other versions? Any tools for recovering corrupt .PPT files? Can I save my presentation to HTML? How can I transfer my presentation to video? Is it possible to save a presentation as Read-Only? Is there a list of keyboard shortcuts somewhere? How do I get rid of Custom dictionary entries? What is the maximum file size for PowerPoint? How do I completely remove PowerPoint? How do I make a PowerPoint file into a self-running executable file? How do I merge two presentations into one? Can Power Point slides be made into PDF files? Why do I get errors trying to edit OrgCharts in PowerPoint? Is there a way to copy slides into a specific location in my presentation? Why is my file still big, even after deleting things? Unsolved Mysteries This section of the site is devoted to those questions that should have answers, but unfortunately don't. If you have some information about any of these questions, please mail us and let us know! What happened to PowerPoint 5.0 and 6.0? Any way to play ScreenCam exe files in PowerPoint slide shows? Know where to get a copy of PowerPoint to run on Windows 3.1? How do you populate List Boxes using VB in PowerPoint? DRAWING how do I change the default colors? Each slide has what is referred to as a "color scheme". The scheme colors are the colors that appear in the little pop-ups for different controls. PowerPoint templates come with multiple color schemes built in, which you can change by using the Format/Color Scheme menu command. You can also use this to create your own schemes. Every slide can have a different color scheme. Different color schemes can be used to break out sections of a long presentation. What happened to Recolor Picture? It's there, it's just hard to find. The recolor picture command is no longer a menu command, but is now a button on the "picture" toolbar. From the View menu, select "Toolbars..." and then "Picture". You will need to select a picture object in order for the recolor picture command to become available. Is there a limit to the number of guides you can have? Yes, for some strange reason, you can only have up to 8 guides in each direction. To get more guides, hold down the CTRL key while dragging on a guide. (You must first turn guides on by using the Guides command on the View menu.) To get rid of a guide, drag it off the page. How do I make my own PowerPoint backgrounds? What you're talking about, is creating templates, or "POT" files. First of all, any file can be saved as a POT file--all you have to do is use the SAVE AS dialog and select POT as the file type, replacing PPT. This action automatically takes you to the location where the rest of the templates are stored, which is sometimes useful and sometimes not. As for the file itself, you'll want to do the following things to make a good template: (easiest if you make it in this order) 1) Format the slide master, including making a nice background, setting the fonts, bullets, etc. 2) Create and apply a color scheme to the Slide Master; make sure that desired objects (text, drawings, etc) follow these colors. You can create multiple schemes for a single template, but the master will only use one of these schemes at a time. Later, when actually in use, each slide can use a different color scheme, so sometimes it's nice to make templates with differing schemes that give each template different looks. 3) Format the page numbers, footers, as you like, and set them for being visible or not, depending on your wishes. 4) Go to black and white view, and, by using the right mouse button to click on individual objects, set the way each object on the page will print until the page resembles the way you want it to look when printed to black and white printers. 5) Insert a New Title Master. By doing this after you've done all the rest, it will automatically "inherit" all the work you've already done, so you've got a good starting place. 6) Make any changes you want to the Title Master, including changing the color scheme and black and white print settings. 7) With no objects selected, from the FORMAT menu, select FONT. Select the font that you want other text and labels to default to. 8) Go to slide sorter view and delete any slides that are there. 9) Go to slide view, where you should see nothing. From the FILE menu, select SAVE AS, and in the "save as type" drop down box select "Presentation Template" 10) close the file, and then create a new presentation from this template, evaluating what needs to be changed, and what bugs need to be fixed. Have fun! How do I create additional pre-set color fills? There is no way to create two or multi-colored fills that you can get to display in the fill menu. A lame workaround is to just make a shape with the fills you like (combine shapes to get multicolored fills) and then keep it around and copy/paste it into your pres. PICTURES AND OTHER IMPORTED FILES My pictures turned to Big Red X's--what happened? You are not alone; this is a serious problem that many people are running into. It is due to a file size bug; when PowerPoint doesn't have enough memory to deal with the size of your file, the graphics get forever replaced with big red X images. If you can insert the pictures directly from PowerPoint (using Insert/Picture) as opposed to using copy/paste, the file size sometimes turns out to be much smaller (some applications create links and other exciting remnants when doing a paste operation). When saving and reopening these files, people find fewer problems. As for opening files which already have red crosses, Microsoft suggests closing the file WITHOUT saving (as saving would also save the red crosses), close all other programs to free up as much memory as possible, restart your computer, and finally reopen your file. We have tested this workaround and it seems to work; problem is that almost everybody closes the file and saves it. In this case, you must manually reinsert the picture from its original source. Any utilities that will compress bitmaps in bulk in PowerPoint? After creating a huge presentation because of many large bitmap images, you can can try compressing the images with PowerPoint's own tool. Select Save As, and then in the dialog look in the Tools menu for the Compress Pictures command. If that doesn't give you what you want, you might consider trying a third-party utility called xx. It is designed for precisely this purpose. How can I put Flash or Shockwave files into my presentation? Putting Flash or Shockwave files in PowerPoint is such an obvious idea that it's really too bad the PowerPoint team didn't think of it. However, it can be done in both PowerPoint 97 and PowerPoint 2000, using the VBA tools. You don't need to be a programmer to do it, but it is geeky! That said, here's what you do: First of all, you must install the Shockwave 4 plug-in Viewer on your system. You may download this for free from the Macromedia web site at http://www.macromedia.com Secondly, save your Flash files as SWF (Shockwave) movies, and WRITE DOWN where you saved them. (this will become clear later). Once that is done, go to PowerPoint (97 or 2000) and make a slide. From the View menu, select Toolbars/Visual Basic to bring up VB toolbar. Click on USSR Button (hammer & something) marked "Control Toolbox" -- this brings up another toolbar. In the NEW set of tools you just bought up, again click on the Hammer & something button that is now marked "Other tools" -- you will get a drop down list. Scroll down this list until you get to "Shockwave Flash Object" --release your mouse button and your cursor becomes a cross hair: draw out a rectangle on your slide (you can change the size later). Right-click on the new rectangle with big x, and from the pop-aside menu selects "Properties". (Isn't this EASY?!!) A large, intimidating properties list pops up on the left side of the screen. Make sure the "Alphabetic" tab is showing. Put on your propeller hat for geeky bits. Change "EmbedMovie" to True (which makes the shockwave file part of the ppt file, so you can give it to others). Set "Loop" to False if you don't want the movie to play endlessly; keep at TRUE if you do. After "Movie" type the absolute path of your file: i.e. c:\desktop\poobah.swf Close the properties box. Your slide will now look exactly the same. But, have no fear. Go to SLIDE SHOW, and you should see your flash movie play. And, when you return from slide show, the movie is now displayed on the screen, and you can resize it appropriately. You can put your shockwave files on the Slide Master and they will animate on every slide. Knock yourself out. Macromedia Flash meets Microsoft PowerPoint What do I need to make this Macromedia Flash and Microsoft PowerPoint magic work? Getting Flash to work inside of PowerPoint requires that you have the ActiveX component installed. (If you have no idea what I just said, please visit this tutorial.) Nowadays, these ships with Internet Explorer on Windows machines by default, but you want to make sure that you have the latest and greatest ActiveX control on the presenter's machine. Send them to Macromedia. Better yet, send them a link to this tutorial. I want to put a Flash movie (swf) inside of a PowerPoint presentation (ppt). Who don't? Follow the tutorial instructions here, and you'll soon be wowing everyone in the boardroom with all of your Flash-y presentations. I think I've got the movie in there but all I see is a big red X. If you’re Flash movie or PowerPoint presentation is about a big red X, congratulations! You're done. If not (the more likely choice), that's a problem. Check here to see some possible ways to resolve it. I've got the movie in there, but it only plays the first time through. I need it to keep playing. When I first wrote this tutorial, I expected people to use it to put interactive graphics in their presentations. Silly me and my low-ball expectations. Everyone pushed the envelope and started putting entire Flash movies in PowerPoint presentations. Those movies always stalled. Sometimes presenters stall. Movies shouldn't. Want to fix it? Check this tutorial. a. How do I rewind my movie in PowerPoint 97 to the beginning every time the slide is loaded? Obviously the real question is: Why are you still using PowerPoint 97? The short answer is "you don't," at least not automatically. The good answer is that there's a pretty seamless workaround that only involves a simple mouseover and some creativity. Wahoo! b. How do I rewind my movie in PowerPoint 2000 to the beginning every time the slide is loaded? This tutorials now applies to the more recent versions of PowerPoint (2000 and XP). No more shifty manoeuvres or wacky workarounds. Well, okay, it's still a bit of a workaround, but PowerPoint now supports actions that trigger on slide show events! What a wonderful world. Projector Launching: Calling Other Files I happen to have Microsoft Visual Basic and I want to launch files from the projector environment. You're actually going to admit to owning Visual Basic? You must be as geeky as I am. Oh well. Here's a project that will allow you to create small executables that will launch any registered files: html, PDF, doc, xls, ppt... anything that the Windows environment understands and has assigned a default launcher. I don't happen to have Visual Basic, you nerd. How do I launch files from the projector environment, smarty pants? You either don't have Visual Basic or you don't want to admit to it. (I can understand that.) But, you still want to launch files from a projector environment without shelling out hundreds of clams to do so? I hear you. That's why I've created this ... The Infamous Flash 3 Preloading Technique OUTDATED: Macromedia made preloading easier for Flash 4, but I still use Flash 3. How do I make an effective preloader? Again, why are you still using Flash 3? (I was using Flash 3 back in 1997 or something when I originally wrote this tutorial. But you, you have no excuse.) I don't know if anyone still uses Flash 3 to be honest, but some sense of nostalgia makes me cling dearly to this old original Flash tutorial. So, if you happen to be running a clocked out Pentium 133 and you're using Flash 3 and you need an easy way to create a preloader, check this tutorial. Hopefully, it will help you. You want to know what else will help you. Buying a new version of Flash. PowerPoint and Flash: Getting PowerPoint into Flash OUTDATED: I need to go the other way. How do I get my PowerPoint content into Flash? Some people already have completed content in PowerPoint presentations that they would like to leverage in their Flash presentations. To you I say, bravo! It's about time. (Back when I originally wrote this tutorial, there's been no magic PowerPoint to Flash conversion. Now, I think there are tons. In fact, I bet if you glance to the right of this tutorial that there is probably an ad or two for products to do exactly that.) In any case, if you want to give it a shot, there are some ways to salvage your content and keep you from starting all over from scratch. This tutorial will help salvage all of your copy and most of your imagery if you're using an old version of PowerPoint. Newer versions of PowerPoint convert the imagery differently and render this old tutorial completely obsolete. As I said above, there are a number of tools for doing this, now that we're in the 21st century. This is sort of helpful, although the support for Flash is so horrible that it's basically useless. The Flash file will start playing as soon as it appears in either the authoring mode or the slide-view mode in PPT, and it will not play again if you return to the slide. You get one play per presentation view. Also, you can't really control (or even predict) the behaviour of the Flash file. What I need is: the flash file starts playing when I want it to (or at least PPT must respect stop () actions at the beginning of the SWF) The flash file should play through and not loop. The flash file should "rewind" when the slide is shown, whether it's for the first time or for the tenth time in a presentation. The flash file should appear on the slide *with its correct size and proportions*. PPT loves to screw up the scaling of the SWF and show content outside the boundaries of the file. I have a quick question--if the flash movie is to pause when the space bar is pressed (in the flash player)...is there a way to have this function in ppt? Or would the default in power point (spacebar I’ve been looking for such a solution almost all day, you're the greatest! thanks! you've really helped me! now I can finally go sleep :) Friends I need your help!!! I have problem with flash files, when I put some Flash file in a ppt the first time it is ok, but later when I tire to re show again, the flash file doesn’t run. and the check marks I am also having trouble with the clip not working in PowerPoint the second time around. The play setting unchecks itself when ever I view the presentation and advance to the next slide. There are only two quit fixes I came up with. Here is another tutorial you might want to consider if you are having trouble controlling the flash clips once they are in PowerPoint. It worked for me. Thanks for a well-written and effective explanation. I have a CD-Rom, which has a Flash movie on it - the file is .exe, not .swf, and I can't figure out how to import it into a PowerPoint presentation. Any ideas you have would be greatly appreciated. Every time I create a swf file and use it in PowerPoint. It plays the first time then the play setting changes to false and it won't play again. What am I doing wrong! Awesome, I made a nice ppt file by embedding a flash file! this software is very helpful Some handy tips: Make sure your clients have the latest flash active control installed as r.6.0.2. had a bug which causes problems for swfs in ppt. Also, as already mentioned flashgeek site has all the code you need to get them to rewind to the start after the first play. Just remember to enable macro security level to medium or low on the ppt presentation if u uses the code. Finally, do a search for PowerPoint faq there’s an excellent one that has links to every resource. I can't remember the url off hand. I have embedded a looping Flash movie that also has a volume slider sound module within the Flash movie. It plays fine, but I cannot go to the next slide in PowerPoint and cannot even end the action with the Esc button...I basically have to Ctrl/Alt/Delete and End the Task. Any suggestions? This is a one time problem. I'd rather not subscribe, but I need help fast for the president's PowerPoint presentation. I'm new and this would make me look good. :) Lots of people seem to be having the problem of movies not rewinding. Help, please. Ours was created on a Mac, now being presented on a PC laptop Windows XP. I tried adding the swf.playing = true, but it still doesn't hold. I created PPTs with Flash movies in them for six months, every day all day and not even Microsoft could help me find a solution to the Playing = true changing to false problem. The only work around I know is to set it to True and then Save, and Quit the presentation and then open it again when you are ready to present. To auto rewind a Flash movie (in this case the Flash object is named 'swfVRTour': Sub OnSlideShowPageChange() Slide18.swfVRTour.Playing = False Slide18.swfVRTour.Rewind Slide18.swfVRTour.GotoFrame (1) Slide18.swfVRTour.Playing = True end sub To go to the next slide when a flash movie completes, just place the following code on the slide with the flash movie object named 'swfIntro' (or whatever you have named it) and from the last frame of your flash movie just issue a fscommand("next",""); :
Private Sub swfIntro_FSCommand(ByVal command As String, ByVal args As String) With SlideShowWindows(1).View If (command = "next") Then I have created two files: a PowerPoint file using Power Plugs 3d Animation and Flash SWF file. I was not able to have the 3d effects work after inserting the flash file into PowerPoint. I want to play the flash and the power Plugs animations at the same time from Power Point witout loosing one or the other effects. The instruction for Embedding Flash Into Power Point 2000 is 100% work for PP 2002 too! but any how you have to make sure that you put the file extension( .swf ) at the end of your file name too. If not, it does not work. It's simple. I need the serial number of power point because any time I try to install the cod it want's me to put in the code so please help me! and I’ll give you any thing in return! I have small problem while embedding a flash movie in PowerPoint, and the problem is such that it throws an error such as "PowerPoint found an error that it can't correct. You should save presentation, quit, and then restart PowerPoint." This error pops out when I click on any of the clickable or interactive button in the flash file. I couldn’t figure why is this happening??? Can you help me on this... My flash file not only contains animation also contains interactive buttons that pops out information on click. If you're inserting a .swf that itself loads other .swfs... your PowerPoint file HAS TO live in the same directory as all the swfs. I followed your instructions to the "letter" and was able to play the flash in slide view. However, after saving it as a "ppt" format I was unable to see it again when I launched the "ppt" from within the directory that I had saved it in. It opened up as a blank screen and unless I went through the entire process again I was not able to view it. The "million dollar question" ? How does it get saved in order to review it when I select the saved file I followed your directions. But what is really weird is that when I open the PowerPoint presentation, the music from my flash movie automatically plays. How can I make it so that the music only plays when I go to the slide in which the flash movie is embedded? Two things that sort of help with .swf's embedded in PowerPoint: 1) Save your presentation as a PowerPoint show. This seems to always restore my flash movies to their starting frame when I run the show. Unfortunately, not all swf's are created equal. 2) Install the flash movie in "loop" mode. Then use the mouse to highlight the control button in the lower left corner of the screen and advance to the next slide using the "next button" instead of the arrow keys (which starts a new loop). Finally, people who seem to get a blank screen after playing the flash once are actually getting a final, blank frame and are not rewinding. Still doesn't seem to be a universal fix for this that always works. PS: I tried one of the freebie programs (Swift Player) to add flash to the insert menu. Its most annoying feature was that it broke lots of PowerPoint things like returning to slide object edit by double clicking a slide! Fortunately it uninstalled gracefully. Any ideas on how to insert FLV files into PowerPoint....or how to convert flv to a format that can be inserted into PowerPoint? I followed every step, but finally it does not work. I need the file for this Saturday class. Can you help telling me how to make it work? it seems as though no matter what I try. it can’t get the file to show a flash when saved as .peps I made the flash presentation into presentation just fine. and when I viewed it after I saved it was fine. but now when I put it onto my cod, to take it to class, it doesn’t show the flash? just the box I had it in..... any thought? "Right-click on the rectangle you have just drawn and select Properties. This opens a list of Movie properties". Maybe I've been missing something...I have a Flash .swf file embedded in a PowerPoint .pps file using the Macromedia Shockwave Flash ActiveX control in PowerPoint....works fine...BUT every time I try to run the .pps player file I get the "Disable/Enable Macro" security dialogue box....Is there away to eliminate the dialogue so the embedded Flash module plays immediately??? I've also been getting a blank PowerPoint window popping up first and then the .pps plays over it. Any answers or places you can point me to solve this problem? Desire to know like placing an animation flash in power point but that this is inserted so that the bottom of the animation is transparent like change the values in Shockwave of the bgcolor so that this is. thanks How can I set the background of an imported flash animation into PowerPoint to transparent? I am often using SWF files in presentations for researchers in our organisation - which used to all be dandy. But lately when I send the file onto someone else, the preview images of a flash file shows as a distorted, squashed down JPEg - anyone got any advice how to keep it locked to show correctly? I have my swf file embedded using Activex, and have entered the size and location in the properties box. I have embedded a button that is linked to an external URL within the Flash movie. Everything works and plays fine, but once I click on the button and external slide opens up, I cannot go to the next slide in PowerPoint and cannot even end the action with the Esc button. Wow gracias! esta ayuda es maravillosa! al principio pense que solo era de importar e incrustar el SWF como se hace con una imagen, pero esta ayuda nos ha salvado la vida! Estamos presentando nuestro proyecto de tesis, y si nos ha sido muy util, queremos impresionar a nuestros jurados!!! :P :) Hi I came across this page when trying to find a solution for this PowerPoint problem that I notice a few other people have had on this page unfortunately I can see these people questions but cant see your answers, so I thought id email you. The problem I have is I have some flash animation in my PowerPoint which works fine but when I email to presentation to other people with the .swf files the animation appears but the properties have changed to Playing=False for some storage reason, is there a fix this problem of the playing changing to false.