Insert flash file into PowerPoint's "three axes"

Mingzhenghua

PowerPoint can be said to be the simplest tool for making demonstration courseware at present, and it is the best choice for making non-interactive courseware. PowerPoint is favored by teachers because of its simplicity and ease of use, and courseware made with PowerPoint can also be seen everywhere. The most common version of PowerPoint is PowerPoint2000, which supports many media formats, such as AVI movies and GIF animations. But friends who have used PowerPoint know that the multimedia function promoted by PowerPoint is limited, especially compared with Flash, its animation function and interactive function are too poor. Our teacher often has a hard choice between "fish" and "bear's paw". Can I import Flash movies into PowerPoint? If feasible, it can not only provide dynamic interactive forms and novel vector animation graphics for PowerPoint, but also slim down PowerPoint courseware. More importantly, embedding Flash movies in PowerPoint2000 can realize all the functions of Flash, such as interactive function, buttons with special functions, opening the default browser window through "Get URL" instruction, realizing animation deformation and so on.

In fact, the method of inserting Flash files into PowerPoint has existed for a long time. I'll introduce you to three methods I know.

The first method: in a presentation, we insert an ActiveX control, that is, "Shockwave Flash Object". Then set the url location of the flash playback file to be called.

Create a new PowerPoint presentation and save it in the same folder as *. Swf file. (Why do you want to do this? You'll know later. )

In the menu bar, select View → Toolbars → Customize to open the customized toolbar panel. In the toolbar column, select the control toolbar, as shown in figure 0 1.

Then the control toolbox panel appears, and then select other controls in the lower right corner, as shown in Figure 02.

Figure 02

Then select "Shockwave Flash Object" from the list of controls of your machine system that appears, as shown in Figure 03.

Figure 03

At this point, your mouse becomes "ten". Use this "ten" to draw a rectangle where animation is needed in the presentation. As for the size of this rectangle, it depends on the size of your animation. The size of the rectangle you draw is the size of the flash animation when the presentation is played. After drawing a rectangle, as shown in Figure 04.

Figure 04

Click this rectangle, then right-click the mouse, select "Properties" in the pop-up menu to pop up the properties dialog box of this control, and then select "…" on the right side of the "Custom" column. After clicking, the "Property Page" dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 05.

Figure 05

In the Movie url column of this dialog box, fill in the URL address of the swf file. Because it is in the same folder as the presentation, we only need to fill in the file name of the swf file (otherwise fill in the absolute path of the swf file), and the swf file we want to call here is "a.swf". In this "Property Page" dialog box, you can also make more detailed settings, including the quality and alignment of swf animation.

When the settings are finished, click the OK button.

At this time, you can play the presentation and see the flash animation.

Suggestion: 1. Set the presentation to "Click and Change Page" so that you can wait until the flash animation is finished before converting it to the next presentation.

2. Set the flash animation to loop. Because after the animation is called, it will not be called again. Setting flash animation to loop can make the animation play continuously.

The second method:

1. In the PowerPoint document, open the Insert menu, and then click the Object command. A dialog box pops up. We choose the "Create from file" option. The dialog box of the system is shown in Figure 06 below:

Figure 06

2. Click the "Browse" button, select the completed flash file, and then press "OK" twice to return to the main window.

3. At this point, a SWF file icon will appear on the slide. Adjust the position and size of the icon to fit the slide template.

4. Open the "Slide Show" menu, and select the "Custom Animation" command in the pop-up submenu to open the detailed settings dialog box, as shown in Figure 07:

Figure 07

5. Click on the SWF object in the "Check Animation Slide Object" window, just like "Object 3" in the above figure, and "Object 3" appears in the time sequence window.

6. Switch to the Multimedia Settings window, as shown in the figure below. We can see that most of the parameters in it are not selectable, and there is only one "object action", which is the key point. Click the drop-down menu of this item and select "Activate Content" from three options. Press the OK button to return.

7. Open the "Slide Show" menu again, and select the "Slide Switch" command in the pop-up submenu to open the dialog box as shown in the following figure. Other parameters do not need to be changed, just change the "Page Change Method". Click the every other option.

8. Press Apply to return to the main window and preview the slide show. We found that a small prompt panel will pop up in the system, as shown in Figure 08. Press Yes to open the Flash inserter and play the inserted SWF file.

Figure 08

The third method:

Install a plug-in called Swiff Point Player. It provides a closer combination of PowerPoint and Flash in use, and can quickly and conveniently add the produced Flash works to the projection in PowerPoint format. When the presentation browses to a page containing Flash, the embedded Flash animation will be automatically played, which adds a lot of fluency and interactivity to the presentation.

1. Installation: Swiff point player is easy to install. Double-click the installation file (SwiffPointPlayer 10.exe) and use Next to go all the way to Huanglong.

2. Use: After the installation is completed, you will find a button at the last edge of the drawing toolbar at the bottom of PowerPoint, as shown in Figure 09.

Figure 09

Click to open the dialog box, as shown in figure 10.

Figure 10

Select the desired *. Swf file, click the "Open" button, and the flash file will be inserted into the PowerPoint document. Adjust the position and size, and you can play it. Is it simple?

Comparatively speaking, the three methods have their own advantages. The first one has the longest history, the second one is the most routine and most suitable for Flash that has been packaged as an exe file, and the third one is the simplest. In use, you can choose to use it according to your specific situation and hobbies, so that your PowerPoint can "flash" your personality and "flash" your wonderful!