Freaky People Productions

Jan Schultink, the blogger behind Slides that Stick er… Sticky Slides has a very short post showing how Powerpoint can be told to play multimedia that might normally choke it.

It’s mostly pictures, but here’s a written summary for reference:

1. Open the Control Toolbox. It will float over your document.

View -> Toolbars -> Control Toolbox

2. The bottom-right icon (looks like the web designers hammer and sickle motif, with an ellipsis) opens, and you can select ‘Shockwave Flash Object’
3. An empty placeholder box will appear. Right-click and select ‘Properties’



4. A long, vertical properties widow will appear. Key fields to update are:
   • EmbedMovie = True
   • Movie = [the movie name] Keep the flash file in the same directory of the presentation to avoid certain death!
   • Playing = True
5. That’s it! It may be flaky still, so it’s best to use this method when you’ll be the one presenting the deck