

In PowerPoint, in Normal view, display the slide on which you want to play the animation.Ĭlick the Microsoft Office Button, and then click PowerPoint Options.Ĭlick Popular, and then under Top options for working with PowerPoint, select the Show Developer tab in the Ribbon check box, and then click OK. Install the Flash Player on your computer. To guarantee that complex animations run properly, install the latest version of the Flash Player, even if older versions of the Shockwave Flash Object are registered on your computer. If it is not registered, download the latest version of the Flash Player from the Adobe Web site to register the Shockwave Flash Object on your computer. If the Shockwave Flash Object appears in the list of controls, it is registered on your computer. To see whether the Shockwave Flash Object is registered, on the Developer tab, in the Controls group, click More Controls. The Shockwave Flash Object must be registered on your computer for you to play the Flash file within a presentation. On the Insert button, click the down arrow, and then click Link to file.

On the Insert tab, in the Media group, click the arrow under Video.Ĭlick Video on my PC or Video from File, locate and click the file that you want to link to. On the Slides tab in Normal view, click the slide to which you want to add a video or animated GIF file. To preview the Flash animation, click Play on the Video Tools Format tab. In the Insert Video dialog box, locate and click the video that you want to embed, and then click Insert.


On the Insert tab, in the Media group, click the arrow under Video, and then click Video on my PC or Video from file. In Normal view, click the slide in which you want to embed a video. You must either install a 64-bit version of QuickTime or Flash or a 32-bit version of PowerPoint 2010. The PowerPoint 2010 64-bit version is not compatible with 32-bit versions of QuickTime or Flash. There may be some limitations when using Flash in PowerPoint, including the inability to use special effects (such as shadows, reflections, glow effects, soft edges, bevels, and 3-D rotation), the fade and trim capabilities, and the ability to compress these files for easier sharing and distribution.
