Comments on: Adding Flash to PowerPoint

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:48:59 +0000

My problem is that animations don’t play when a swf file is in ppt file A and that file is linked to ppt file B as a Slide Master.

Zoe:
I read somewhere that the ActiveX control required is the one that is installed against Ineternet Explorer, so make sure you are not just installing the stand-alone shockwave player, but download the latest ActiveX for IE (10.3 I think).

By: Zoe

Zoe — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:24:13 +0000

Hi! It doesnt give me the shockwave player option i’ve installed adobe shockwave player but it still doesnt give me the option on the tools, it only shows shockwave activex control

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:07:24 +0000

Why does the .swf not play when I go a second time to play the show? If I add the .swf it will play the first go round but not again. I’m sure it’s a setting in the properties, not sure which one. I use PP2010 and sometimes 2003 on an older computer. Thanks!

By: Judd Albrecht

Judd Albrecht — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:30:27 +0000

Hi Christina,

Unfortunately, Mac PowerPoint and Keynote does not support the flash technology. Hopefully Microsoft and Apple will work to add this support.

All the Best,

Judd Albrecht

By: Christina Zampitella

Christina Zampitella — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:43:26 +0000

do you have a tutorial for a Mac owner by chance?

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 18 May 2011 10:58:13 +0000

Unlike ppt 2003 the embedding of flash .def files is not obvious in 2007 and 2010. In the properties of the shockwave flash object set embedmovie to true and then save as pptm not pptx only saving as a macro enabled PowerPoint will the file be embedded. This makes it very difficult to extract the swfs from your PowerPoint slides

By: Art Holden

Art Holden — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:06:19 +0000

Hi James, I’ve done a bit of research on this and I can’t seem to duplicate the problem. Have you checked that you are running the most recent version of Flash? Maybe the Shockwave Flash Object Active X control in PowerPoint needs to be updated.

Art Holden
PresenterMedia

By: James

James — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 02:17:59 +0000

I have embedded a swf into my powerpoint presentation. In the properties I have the play set to true. It plays fine the first time through, but when I return to the page, it will not run. When I check the properties, it has changed back to false. What can I do to keeo from having to change the properties back to true each time the swf runs? Thanks for you help.

By: rajesh

rajesh — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:40:09 +0000

Great. to the point.
I was trying to do this for couple of days but all i was getting – a white box. Only when i changed the flash filename to name with extension swf as mentioned by you, it worked
thanks

By: Art Holden

Art Holden — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:34:07 +0000

Hi Jordan, I tried to duplicate this in 2003 but the setting would save for me. Is the SWF showing up for you when you view your slideshow? and then the settings are gone after you save and open?

Art Holden
PresenterMedia