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,
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Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Remember: To bring in the Flash movie within PowerPoint, you also should copy your Flash movie to the same folder which contains the
PowerPoint presentation
Follow these steps to insert a Flash movie into PowerPoint 2007 using Developer tab:
- 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.
- Access the Developer tab of the Ribbon, and within the Controls group, click the More Controls button (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: More Controls button
- This will bring up the More Controls dialog box that you can see in Figure 2. Scroll down to select the Shockwave Flash Object
option, and click OK.
Figure 2: Select to place a Shockwave Flash Object control
- 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.
Figure 3: The placed Shockwave Flash Object control
- Select the inserted control and right-click. From the resultant menu, choose Properties (see Figure 4). Alternatively you can
click the Properties button within the Developer tab of the Ribbon (within the Controls group).
Figure 4: Access the Properties pane
- This will bring up the Properties pane that you can see in Figure 5.
Figure 5: Properties pane
- In the Properties pane, select the Movie option and type the name of your Flash SWF (see Figure 6) -- 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.
Figure 6: Properties pane with a link to the inserted Flash movie
- Close the Properties pane to get back to PowerPoint interface and save the presentation.
Note: If you save your PowerPoint presentations with Flash movies inserted in them as the default PPTX files, then those Flash movies
will not play in PowerPoint 2003 or previous versions (on Windows). To have them play in those older versions, you should work with PPT files (the
older PowerPoint file format) rather than PPTX files.
See Also:
Insert Flash Movies into PowerPoint 2016 for Windows
using the Developer Tab
Insert Flash Movies into PowerPoint 2013 using the
Developer Tab for Windows
Insert Flash Movies into PowerPoint 2010 using the
Developer Tab for Windows
