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Dyl
Surely this is easily possible with Office 2003, WinXP Pro?
B
Bob Buckland ?:-\)
Hi Dyl,
Well, yes, you can insert it, but you may have problems with it and it may only work for you in its original location. (Word
doesn't have a flash player of its own built in)
With your Word document opened and a safety copy saved:
1. From View=>Toolbars turn on the Control Toolbox choice
2. On the Control Toolbox select the 'More Tools' choice
3. Scroll down to the Shockwave Object choice.
4. You'll likely see only a box at this point with a large black 'X'
through it. Check to see that the 'Design mode' icon on the
Control box is highlighted.
5. Right click on the Shockwave object and choose properties.
6. In the 'movie' field paste or type the drive/path and name of the .SWF
file. For example
c:\Flash\goldfish.swf
7. While still in the properties change the 'embed movie' choice to 'true'
8. Close the properties toolbox. You'll still be looking at the 'X'd box
where the SWF file is.
9. Resize the item to the size you want, right click it and choose Format Control
to set text wrapping, etc then exit back to the document.
10. Use File=>Save As and save to a new file name.
11. On the Control Toolbox toolbar click on the 'Exit Design Mode' icon
to turn it off and see if the flash file plays.
You may find that Word will crash when playing or saving the file after the flash starts playing. You will also be limited in the
'wrap styles' you can use to format the object.
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Surely this is easily possible with Office 2003, WinXP Pro? >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
Pricing and Packages for '2007 Microsoft Office System'
http://microsoft.com/office/preview
Well, yes, you can insert it, but you may have problems with it and it may only work for you in its original location. (Word
doesn't have a flash player of its own built in)
With your Word document opened and a safety copy saved:
1. From View=>Toolbars turn on the Control Toolbox choice
2. On the Control Toolbox select the 'More Tools' choice
3. Scroll down to the Shockwave Object choice.
4. You'll likely see only a box at this point with a large black 'X'
through it. Check to see that the 'Design mode' icon on the
Control box is highlighted.
5. Right click on the Shockwave object and choose properties.
6. In the 'movie' field paste or type the drive/path and name of the .SWF
file. For example
c:\Flash\goldfish.swf
7. While still in the properties change the 'embed movie' choice to 'true'
8. Close the properties toolbox. You'll still be looking at the 'X'd box
where the SWF file is.
9. Resize the item to the size you want, right click it and choose Format Control
to set text wrapping, etc then exit back to the document.
10. Use File=>Save As and save to a new file name.
11. On the Control Toolbox toolbar click on the 'Exit Design Mode' icon
to turn it off and see if the flash file plays.
You may find that Word will crash when playing or saving the file after the flash starts playing. You will also be limited in the
'wrap styles' you can use to format the object.
=========
Surely this is easily possible with Office 2003, WinXP Pro? >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,
Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
Pricing and Packages for '2007 Microsoft Office System'
http://microsoft.com/office/preview
D
Dyl
Hello Bob,
Thank you for your clear instructions. It does work now. I have one note and
one further question:
The note is that for the flash to be saved as the size you want it, you do
have to set the text wraping (as in 9.) by setting the Format Control)
The further question is that when I now open the document, I always have to
click the Exit Design Mode button before I can play the Flash movie. I know
to do this, but seeing as my document is going to be used by students, they
may not do this. Can I stop this from happening?
Actually a further question; will future versions of Word handle Flash more
easily? This whole process surely can be programmed so that a drag and drop
of a Flash object will allow it to work AND so that the Flash object is
embedded inthe same way as an image - meaning it doesn't have to link to
another file?
Regards
Dyl
Thank you for your clear instructions. It does work now. I have one note and
one further question:
The note is that for the flash to be saved as the size you want it, you do
have to set the text wraping (as in 9.) by setting the Format Control)
The further question is that when I now open the document, I always have to
click the Exit Design Mode button before I can play the Flash movie. I know
to do this, but seeing as my document is going to be used by students, they
may not do this. Can I stop this from happening?
Actually a further question; will future versions of Word handle Flash more
easily? This whole process surely can be programmed so that a drag and drop
of a Flash object will allow it to work AND so that the Flash object is
embedded inthe same way as an image - meaning it doesn't have to link to
another file?
Regards
Dyl
B
Bob Buckland ?:-\)
Hi Dyl,
The 'technique' used to run the flash within Word is sort of an edgy workaround (i.e. it's not a 'designed in' feature that works
through selecting a .SWF file if you use Insert=>Object=>From File. Whether MS chooses to integrate flash as a 'supported' object
in Word is one that could only be speculated on. You may want to try posting to the MS Office 2007 team (from Microsoft) blogs you
can reach through the http://microsoft.com/office/preview site on that perspective.
I'm not seeing the Design mode issue when reopening a Word file saved with Flash, but that may change if you move or send the
document on to someone else. It may also depend on what the macro/addin security settings are in Tools=>Options and the method
you're using to open the document that contains the flash object.
An 'object' that is embedded is actually embedding a chunk to the external app to 'run' the item, rather than a graphic that is
'static' data in the file. Word won't for example 'play' an animated GIF file within a Word document, but if you had the right
control installed, as you do with a flash/shockwave object then it could also play the animated GIF.
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Hello Bob,
Thank you for your clear instructions. It does work now. I have one note and
one further question:
The note is that for the flash to be saved as the size you want it, you do
have to set the text wraping (as in 9.) by setting the Format Control)
The further question is that when I now open the document, I always have to
click the Exit Design Mode button before I can play the Flash movie. I know
to do this, but seeing as my document is going to be used by students, they
may not do this. Can I stop this from happening?
Actually a further question; will future versions of Word handle Flash more
easily? This whole process surely can be programmed so that a drag and drop
of a Flash object will allow it to work AND so that the Flash object is
embedded inthe same way as an image - meaning it doesn't have to link to
another file?
Regards
Dyl >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,
Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
Pricing and Packages for '2007 Microsoft Office System'
http://microsoft.com/office/preview
The 'technique' used to run the flash within Word is sort of an edgy workaround (i.e. it's not a 'designed in' feature that works
through selecting a .SWF file if you use Insert=>Object=>From File. Whether MS chooses to integrate flash as a 'supported' object
in Word is one that could only be speculated on. You may want to try posting to the MS Office 2007 team (from Microsoft) blogs you
can reach through the http://microsoft.com/office/preview site on that perspective.
I'm not seeing the Design mode issue when reopening a Word file saved with Flash, but that may change if you move or send the
document on to someone else. It may also depend on what the macro/addin security settings are in Tools=>Options and the method
you're using to open the document that contains the flash object.
An 'object' that is embedded is actually embedding a chunk to the external app to 'run' the item, rather than a graphic that is
'static' data in the file. Word won't for example 'play' an animated GIF file within a Word document, but if you had the right
control installed, as you do with a flash/shockwave object then it could also play the animated GIF.
===========
Hello Bob,
Thank you for your clear instructions. It does work now. I have one note and
one further question:
The note is that for the flash to be saved as the size you want it, you do
have to set the text wraping (as in 9.) by setting the Format Control)
The further question is that when I now open the document, I always have to
click the Exit Design Mode button before I can play the Flash movie. I know
to do this, but seeing as my document is going to be used by students, they
may not do this. Can I stop this from happening?
Actually a further question; will future versions of Word handle Flash more
easily? This whole process surely can be programmed so that a drag and drop
of a Flash object will allow it to work AND so that the Flash object is
embedded inthe same way as an image - meaning it doesn't have to link to
another file?
Regards
Dyl >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,
Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
Pricing and Packages for '2007 Microsoft Office System'
http://microsoft.com/office/preview