Inserting Shockwave or Director Content


Shockwave Flash is an animation format by a company called Macromedia. PowerPoint and this format do not naturally go together smoothly, but you can insert Shockwave content on a slide as an ActiveX control in a pinch. Similarly Macromedia Director content (another multimedia format by the same company) can also be inserted via ActiveX.

Caution 

Shockwave and Director content will not play using the PowerPoint Viewer because the viewer does not support ActiveX content.

To insert Shockwave or Director content, first turn on the Developer tab (Office image from book PowerPoint Options, click Popular, and mark the Show Developer Tab in the Ribbon check box). Then follow these steps:

  1. On the Developer tab, in the Controls group, click More Controls. (It's the icon that looks like a hammer and wrench.) The More Controls dialog box opens.

  2. Select Shockwave Flash Object (for Shockwave) or Shockwave ActiveX Control (for Director). The mouse pointer turns into a crosshair.

    Note 

    If you do not have those formats listed in the More Controls dialog box, you'll need to exit PowerPoint and then open up Internet Explorer to install the ActiveX control. You can do so by going to http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?.

  3. Drag on the slide to create a boxed area where the content should appear.

  4. With the new box selected, click the Properties button on the Developer tab. A Properties box appears for the object.

  5. Do one of the following:

    • For Shockwave content: Click Custom (the top row). A button with an ellipsis on it () appears to the right of that row. Click the ellipsis button to open the Property Pages dialog box. In the Movie URL box, type the path or URL to the file. Mark the Embed Movie check box, and click OK.

    • For Director content: Click the SRC line, and type the Director file's name (and path if it is not in the same folder as the presentation itself). Director files are not embedded (but rather, linked), so it's a good idea to put them in the same folder as the presentation file itself before adding them.

  6. Close all open dialog boxes.

EXPERT TIP 

A tutorial and more information about inserting Director content are available at http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/ppdirector.html. This information was written for earlier versions of PowerPoint, but most of it still applies except for the step-by-step walkthrough.




Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Bible
Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 Bible
ISBN: 0470144939
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 268
Authors: Faithe Wempen

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