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But what if I want to conduct a classroom/virtual session, where I’ll be predominantly using a PowerPoint presentation and need to show a demonstration for one of the topics/sub-topics to the attendees. I don’t like to go away from my slideshow view and open another application to show them the demo… I want it all on my slideshow!
If you think like me and are looking for an answer to this… You are at the right place! 🙂
We need to embed a Captivate simulation in PowerPoint presentation. Let’s see the steps to do so for PowerPoint 2007.
Step 1: Create a simulation using Adobe Captivate and publish it as a SWF file.
Step 2: Open the PowerPoint presentation and insert a blank slide for adding simulation.
Step 3: We need to work with the Developer tab now. If you can’t see it in the Ribbon, follow these steps to make it visible.
- Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click PowerPoint Options.
- Click Popular and select Show Developer tab in the Ribbon.
- Click OK.
Step 4: On the Developer tab, in the Controls group, click More Controls.
Step 5: In the list of controls, click Shockwave Flash Object and click OK.
Step 6: Drag diagonally to create a box in which the simulation would appear. Don’t worry about sizing it accurately; you can adjust it later as well.
Step 7: Right-click the Shockwave Flash Object, and then click Properties.
Step 8: On the Alphabetic tab, click the Movie property. In the value column (the blank cell next to Movie), type the full drive path, including the file name.
Step 9: Set the Playing property to true, Loop to false and Embed Movie to true.
Step 10: Close the Properties dialog and test the movie.
The simulation will now play in your PowerPoint presentation!
Note: If during the slideshow, the simulation doesn’t play automatically, right-click and select Play.
Happy captivating! 🙂
But what if I want to conduct a classroom/virtual session, where I’ll be predominantly using a PowerPoint presentation and need to show a demonstration for one of the topics/sub-topics to the attendees. I don’t like to go away from my slideshow view and open another application to show them the demo… I want it all on my slideshow!
If you think like me and are looking for an answer to this… You are at the right place! 🙂
We need to embed a Captivate simulation in PowerPoint presentation. Let’s see the steps to do so for PowerPoint 2007.
Step 1: Create a simulation using Adobe Captivate and publish it as a SWF file.
Step 2: Open the PowerPoint presentation and insert a blank slide for adding simulation.
Step 3: We need to work with the Developer tab now. If you can’t see it in the Ribbon, follow these steps to make it visible.
- Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click PowerPoint Options.
- Click Popular and select Show Developer tab in the Ribbon.
- Click OK.
Step 4: On the Developer tab, in the Controls group, click More Controls.
Step 5: In the list of controls, click Shockwave Flash Object and click OK.
Step 6: Drag diagonally to create a box in which the simulation would appear. Don’t worry about sizing it accurately; you can adjust it later as well.
Step 7: Right-click the Shockwave Flash Object, and then click Properties.
Step 8: On the Alphabetic tab, click the Movie property. In the value column (the blank cell next to Movie), type the full drive path, including the file name.
Step 9: Set the Playing property to true, Loop to false and Embed Movie to true.
Step 10: Close the Properties dialog and test the movie.
The simulation will now play in your PowerPoint presentation!
Note: If during the slideshow, the simulation doesn’t play automatically, right-click and select Play.
Happy captivating! 🙂
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I’m getting this error in step 6: (Step 6: Drag diagonally to create a box in which the simulation would appear. Don’t worry about sizing it accurately; you can adjust it later as well.)
Any workaround? Thanks in advance!
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Hi Dr. Pooja,
For security reasons new builds of Microsoft Office for Office 365 on Windows block activation of Flash, Silverlight, and Shockwave controls. Most users won’t be impacted, but for some users this may cause one of the following issues:
When you click on an embedded Flash movie in PowerPoint Slide Show, nothing happens even though this worked before.
Power View in Excel does not work anymore (because it uses Silverlight). You may see an error message that says “Activate method of OLEObject class failed”.
There are two ways you can unblock these controls. The first is by downloading a small package of registry keys. The second, by manually editing the registry yourself.
To download the package, go to: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Registry-keys-to-reenable-7cd9f723
And follow the instructions.
Regards.
Marco Araujo
I too am new to Captivate. I have been able to follow the above instructions for embedding a Captivate video in a PowerPoint presentation. However, you lose me at step 10 ( Close the Properties dialog and test the movie.) How do you ‘test’ the movie? If in ‘slide show’ the video does not run and right clicking only gets me the option ‘About Adobe Flash Player 10’ and not the ‘play’ option mentioned above. Can someone help? Buddy
