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Using Flash Designer with Microsoft PowerPoint.

To integrate your Flash animation with Microsoft PowerPoint perform few simple steps:

  1. Open PowerPoint and create a new slide.
  2. From your Main Menu bar select View > Toolbars > Visual Basic.
  3. From the Visual Basic Toolbar, select the 'Control' Toolbox icon and open the 'Control' Toolbox.
  4. Choose the More Controls icon and scroll down the list to Shockwave Flash Object.
  5. Draw out a rectangle on your slide to any dimension.
  6. Right-click on the rectangle you have just drawn and select Properties. This opens a list of Movie properties.

To embed your animation, make the following changes in the Properties box:

  • EmbedMovie: change this value to True
  • Height: change this to the correct dimension of your animation
  • Width: change this to the correct dimension of your animation
  • Loop: change to False (unless you want your video to loop, in which case leave as True)
  • Movie: type in the absolute path of your .swf movie

To view your video, select Slide show > View show from the Main Menu. Your animation will play on the slide you placed it on.

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