How to Play Flash Animations on PowerPoint 2010

How to Play Flash Animations on PowerPoint 2010?

PowerPoint presentations can not only integrate slides, videos, music as well as Flash animations into one. That is to say, we can insert SWF files into PowerPoint. Today I'll show you how to do this on PowerPoint 2010.

Step 1 Create a new or open an existing PowerPoint presentation with PowerPoint 2010.

Step 2 Click File tab in the tool bar, then choose Options.

Click File tab and select Options

Step 3 A new PowerPoint Options window pops up. Go to Quick Access Toolbar and double-click Developer Tab from the Choose commands from drop-down menu.

Choose Developer Tab

Double-click More Controls to add it to the right toolbar. Click OK button to confirm and return.

Choose More Controls

Step 4 Now we can see a More Controls icon in the main menu. Hit the icon and select Shockwave Flash Object from the list. Now use your mouse to draw a control on a slide for the Flash animation. The position and size can also be resized.

More Controls icon

Select Shockwave Flash Object

Step 5 Right-click on the control and choose Properties. In the Properties window, paste a full path of your flash file to the Movie property. You can add a local flash file (like mine) or use an online resource.

Right-click the control and choose properties

Properties setting

To make the Flash movie play automatically when the slide is displayed, we can set Playing property to True.

To loop Flash movie playback while the slide is displayed, we can set Loop property to True.

Step 6 Close the Properties window. We can save the presentation or view it as slideshow. Click Slideshow button in the View tab or simply press F5.

Play flash animation on PowerPoint 2010

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