Insert Flash Movies using the Developer Tab in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows

To insert a Flash movie into PowerPoint 2007, you must enable the Developer tab on the Ribbon. You also need to have the updated version of Adobe's Shockwave Flash ActiveX control. To make sure, you have the current version installed, go to this site (link no longer works) using Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Follow these steps to insert a Flash movie into PowerPoint 2007 using the Developer tab:

1. Open the PowerPoint presentation and select the slide where you want to insert the Flash movie. It's good to save your presentation at this time. Press Ctrl + S to save.
2. Access the Developer tab of the Ribbon, and within the Controls group, click the More Controls button, as shown in Figure 1, below.
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   Figure 1: More Controls button
3. Doing so will bring up the More Controls dialog box, as shown in Figure 2, below. Scroll down to select the Shockwave Flash Object option, and click the OK button.
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   Figure 2: Select to place a Shockwave Flash Object control
4. The cursor will now turn into a crosshair. Drag and place an instance on the slide so that your control looks like what you can see in Figure 3, below.
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   Figure 3: The placed Shockwave Flash Object control
5. Select the inserted Flash control and right-click. From the resultant menu, choose Properties, as shown in Figure 4, below. Alternatively you can click the Properties button within the Developer tab of the Ribbon (within the Controls group).
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   Figure 4: Access the Properties pane
6. Doing so will bring up the Properties pane, as shown in Figure 5, below.
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   Figure 5: Properties pane
7. In the Properties pane, select the Movie option and type the name of your Flash SWF, as shown in Figure 6, below. No path is required since the presentation and Flash movie (SWF) are placed in the same folder. Also make sure that the EmbedMovie option remains set to False, since PowerPoint 2007's security options don't respect the True value for EmbedMovie.
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   Figure 6: Properties pane with a link to the inserted Flash movie
8. Close the Properties pane to get back to the PowerPoint interface and save the presentation.