# Inserting movies in PowerPoint presentations

You can insert Captivate movies in PowerPoint presentations with a few simple steps. First, you create a Captivate movie and save it as a Flash (SWF) file. Then you open a PowerPoint presentation and insert the Captivate movie into a slide.

#### To insert a Captivate movie in a PowerPoint presentation:

1. Create the movie in Captivate.

2. Publish the movie as a Flash (SWF) file.

Note the location of the saved SWF file.

3. Open the PowerPoint presentation to which you want to add the Captivate movie.

4. From the View menu, select Toolbars > Control Toolbox.

5. Select More Controls
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6. From the list of objects, select Shockwave Flash Object.

7. Drag diagonally to create a box that is the size and location for the movie.

Tip: You can resize the box in which the movie appears. Return to the slide that contains the movie in PowerPoint, and drag the resizing handles. To find out the exact dimensions of the Captivate movie, see Determining the size of your movie.

8. Right-click on the box and select Properties.

9. In the Properties window, click once on the top line Custom.

10. Click once on .

The Property Pages dialog box appears.

11. In Movie URL, enter the location of the Flash (SWF) file to add. Type the full drive path, including the filename (for example, C\:My Documents\MyFile.swf) or URL to the Flash file that you want to play.

12. Click OK.

13. You can set the following options for how the animation plays:

    Set the Playing property to True. This plays the file automatically when the slide is displayed. If the Flash (SWF) file has a Start/Rewind control built into it, the Playing setting can be set to False.

    If you don't want the animation to play repeatedly, in the Loop property, select False (click the cell to display a down arrow; then click the arrow and select False).

    Select Embed Movie to ensure that the Captivate movie is always included with the PowerPoint presentation.

14. When you are finished setting options, click the close button (the small, red X) in the top right corner of the Properties dialog box.

15. Test the movie. From the View menu, select Slide Show.

16. To exit the slide show and return to normal view, press Escape.