Tutorial: Requirements for embedding Macromedia Flash movies in Microsoft Powerpoint presentations

All of this embedding mumbo jumbo is based on the Shockwave Flash Microsoft ActiveX component, an ActiveX component created by Macromedia that allows its content to run in Microsoft Internet Explorer. If you don't have it (and if the machine on which you want to present doesn't have it), it's not going to work. So, how do you find out if you've got the right stuff?

The Microsoft ActiveX component for Shockwave Flash has been shipping on Microsoft Windows platforms since Windows 98, and it has been an integral part of the Internet Explorer install routine since IE 4.0. So, it's fairly safe to assume that you have it.

Still it never hurts to check. You may developing content for the presentation that requires a certain version of Flash, the presenter may have removed this ActiveX control from his machine, or any other number of strange coincidences may have occurred. I mean, who am I to say, really?

So, anyway, better safe than sorry. Check your ActiveX control, check your Flash format, and check your presenter's machine. An ounce of prevention... Okay, enough with the platitudes. On to the next step.

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