How to Insert Flash to PowerPoint and Keynote

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How to Insert Flash to PowerPoint and Keynote
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• PowerPoint and Keynote are the most commonly
  used office software to make slideshows for
  presentation or else. When giving a presentation,
  the use of video is an important trick to attract
  audience. Thus, we always need to insert videos
  into PPT or Keynote, and Flash video is one of
  the most popular components. This step-by-step
  article describes how to add a Macromedia
  Shockwave Flash to a PPT or Keynote slide to play
  a Flash file (.swf) during a slide show.

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• How to Insert Flash SWF to PPT
• PowerPoint 2007
• Make sure that the Flash Player is installed on
  the computer. Then, follow these steps
• 1. In PowerPoint, display in normal view the
  slide on which you want to play the animation.
• 2. Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then
  click PowerPoint Options.
• 3. Click Popular, and then click to select the
  Show Developer tab in the Ribbon check box under
  Top options for working with PowerPoint, and then
  click OK.
• 4. On the Developer tab, click More Controls in
  the Controls group.

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• 5. In the list of controls, click Shockwave
  Flash Object, click OK, and then drag on the
  slide to draw the control.
• 6. Resize the control by dragging the sizing
  handles.
• 7. Right-click the Shockwave Flash Object, and
  then click Properties.
• 8. On the Alphabetic tab, click the Movie
  property.
• 9. In the value column (the blank cell next to
  Movie), type the full drive path, including the
  file name (for example, C\MyFile.swf) or uniform
  resource locator (URL) to the Flash file that you
  want to play.

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• PowerPoint 2010
• Note PowerPoint 2010 now has direct support for
  Flash (.swf) and inserting videos from websites
  that make use of embed code, such as YouTube. You
  need to have Adobe Flash Player installed and
  this is only supported on 32-bit version of
  Office 2010 and PowerPoint 2010.
• Make sure that the Flash Player is installed on
  the computer. Then, follow these steps
• 1. In PowerPoint, display in normal view the
  slide on which you want to play the animation.
• 2. Click File, and then click Options.
• 3. Click Customize Ribbon, and then check the
  check box labeled Developer in the right list,
  and then click OK.

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• 4. On the Developer tab, click the More Controls
  button in the Controls group.
• 5. In the list of controls, click Shockwave
  Flash Object, click OK, and then drag on the
  slide to draw the control.
• 6. Resize the control by dragging the sizing
  handles.
• 7. Right-click the Shockwave Flash Object, and
  then click Properties.
• 8. On the Alphabetic tab, click the Movie
  property.
• 9. In the value column (the blank cell next to
  Movie), type the full drive path, including the
  file name (for example, C\MyFile.swf) or uniform
  resource locator (URL) to the Flash file that you
  want to play.

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• PowerPoint 2003 and Lower
• For PPT 2003 and lower, the method is quite
  complicated and not easy to operate. You can
  refer to http//support.microsoft.com/kb/291875
  for detailed description. Personally speaking, if
  you want to insert SWF to PPT 2003 or lower
  version, I recommend you to use a SWF to WMV
  Converter to convert SWF to WMV and then insert
  the WMV video to PPT instead.

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• How to Insert Flash SWF to Keynote
• Not like the MS PowerPoint, Keynote does not
  support inserting SWF files since Mac-based
  software don't support Flash. Therefore, if you
  want to insert SWF files to Keynote, you need to
  convert SWF to MOV for Keynote accepts QuickTime
  video formats. After the conversion completed,
  you will be able to import the converted flash
  SWF to Keynote and play on it.