Interoperability between Microsoft PowerPoint and Micromedia Flash

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Putting Flash Animation in PowerPoint
Follow these steps to put a Flash movie in your PowerPoint presentation for awesome animation. (Thanks to Rick Turoczy for the basics, which I've added to. See his version.)
1. Write down the location of the SWF file you want to use.
2. Choose View>Toolbars>Control Toolbox.
3. Click the Hammer button (More Controls).
4. Choose Shockwave Flash Object from the menu.
5. Drag a box across the screen to get the desired size and location.
6. Right click the box and choose Properties.
7. In the Properties window, click the top line, Custom. Then click the ellipsis at the right.
8. In the Property Pages dialog box, type the location of the SWF file that you wrote down earlier. Use the full path.
9. Set the other parameters, if you wish, for example, Quality: best; Scale: show all; Window: window.
10. Click Embed movie if you want to make sure it’s always included with the PP presentation.
11. Click OK.
12. Close the Properties window using its close box.
13. Choose Slide Show view to see the movie. If your movie didn’t appear in Normal view, it will appear when you return to Normal view after running the slide show.

Importing a PowerPoint presentation into Flash
Earlier we explained how to bring a Flash movie into PowerPoint, but how about bringing a PowerPoint presentation into Flash? You can't do it directly, but you can save the files in WMF format and import them into Flash. Here's how:
· In PowerPoint, choose File > Save As.
· In the Save as type drop-down list, choose WMF (a vector format) and click Save.
· When asked if you want to save all the slides, say you do (if that's what you want). PowerPoint saves all the slides in a separate folder.
· Open your Flash movie and click the first keyframe where you want to start.
· Choose File > Import. Find the files in the folder and click the first one. They'll be named slide1.wmf, slide2.wmf, and so on. Click Open.
· When Flash asks you if you want to import the entire sequence, click Yes. Flash imports each slide onto consecutive frames.
Because you're importing a vector format, you can edit all the objects and the text in Flash!