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How to include Flash Animation into your Ms. PowerPoint Presentation.

(1) Prepare your shockwave flash animation file (in this example is equitable.swf).

(2) Open your Ms PowerPoint, create new file, or open your existing one. Go to View/Toolbars/Control Toolbox [see below]

and the control box will popup, and click "more control" the most bottom right button, and scroll down untill you find "Shockwave Flash Object" [see below]

Your mouse cursor will change into a "+" sign and draw a box where you want your animation to put (you can change the size of the animation later on). Then you will find something like the one below.

Double click the box, and a visual basic editor will popup, the left, at the properties-shockwave falsh, on the "movie" part, type the file name of your flash. See illustration below assuming that the file is in the same folder as your powerpoint file e.g. equitable.swf.

Press ENTER after you type the animation file!! and close the visual basic windows. You won't see the animation until you do the slide show (press F5).

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