PowerPoint and Flash

Techniques

Here's a listing of PowerPoint-Flash articles, reviews and tutorials that you'll find on this site. Keep checking back often as I add to this list.

PowerPoint and the Flash ActiveX Control discusses the PowerPoint-Flash connection and the Shockwave Flash ActiveX control.

Inserting Flash Content in PowerPoint Manually shows you how you would manually insert Flash content in PowerPoint

PowerPoint and Flash - Working Together provides links to tools and tutorials that help insert Flash content into PowerPoint..

Tools that Insert Flash in PowerPoint discusses tools that automatically insert Flash content within PowerPoint.

Benefits of Converting PowerPoint to Flash -- Colby Devitt of Wildform why you should convert your PowerPoint presentations to Flash.

Read here...

Giving PowerPoint Pizzazz with Macromedia Flash - Patrice-Anne Rutledge finds that there are many reasons you might want to use Flash movies in your PowerPoint presentation, most notably to take advantage of Flash's interactive vector animations and small file size.

Learn more...

Learning Flash? - Ellen Finkelstein is author of several PowerPoint, Flash, and AutoCAD books, including the bestselling Flash CS4 For Dummies. In this discussion, Ellen discusses her Flash CS4 For Dummies book.

Read the conversation here...

Flash Output Programs

These programs, reviewed on this site create output in the Flash SWF format:

• ActiveSlide Thunder
• Articulate Engage
• Articulate Engage '09
• Articulate Quizmaker
• Articulate Quizmaker '09
• authorPOINT Lite
• rObjects rChart
• SwiffRec
• Wildform Flix

See Also: PowerPlugs: PowerPoint for Flash Suite

PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit is now out! Check the book on Amazon.com...

Cutting Edge PowerPoint 2007 for Dummies is a completely rewritten version of my earlier book! Look here...

Special Edition: Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 is out! Check the book on Amazon.com...

Also look at my bestseller book Cutting Edge PowerPoint for Dummies! Check the book site...

Learn PowerPoint and Flash

Geetesh Bajaj teaches you more about PowerPoint to Flash -- choose a tutorial page below:

• Convert PowerPoint to Flash Manually - Part I
  
  
• Convert PowerPoint to Flash Manually - Part I
  
  
• Convert PowerPoint to Flash Manually - Part III

Flash Index is a listing of Flash resources.

Fullscreen Flash explains how you could output Flash content that plays fullscreen.

PowerPoint to Flash Converter Products

These are reviews of online rich media products on this site:

Wildform Flair provides everything you need to create Flash movies from your PowerPoint presentations, including controlling each invidual aspect of the PowerPoint to Flash conversion.

See these movie tutorial on using Wilform Flair to convert PowerPoint to Flash

Articulate Presenter does a great job of converting PowerPoint to Flash - see their site here...

Updated reviews of Articulate Presenter 5 and Articulate Presenter '09 can be found on this site.

TechSmith Camtasia can video capture your presentations as they play and save them as Flash movies -- it can include your live narrations, and even a picture-in-picture webcam output.

FlashPoint and FlashPoint Professional allow you to convert your PowerPoint presentations to Flash.

iSpring Free converts PowerPoint to Flash, and helps to publish Flash files on web -- and iSpring Pro version has much more features -- see their site here...

PowerCONVERTER and PowerCONVERTER XP

See Also: Companion Flash Programs for PowerPoint: A Listing

Product Reviews

Flash Toolbar simplifies the inserting of Flash SWFs files into PowerPoint.

InstantFX SE Flash Browser / Transformer is a Flash SWF browser, it also includes an internal Flash SWF library.

FlashClips lets you insert a Flash SWF animation into a PowerPoint slide -- it is packaged with some pre-built Flash animations.