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Friday, May 25, 2012

How to Enjoy Flash Movies with Microsoft Office Word 2010

According to the latest years, Windows is still the most desirable system in traditional computer fields with over 50% market share. To some extent, the success of Windows can contribute to the great success of Microsoft Office. Nowadays, people are using Microsoft for commercial or person purposes.

Without Microsoft Office, life will turn to be wired. Though more and more members are joining in Microsoft Office 2010, Word 2010, PowerPoint 2010 and Excel 2010 are still top three members most favored by all. To many people, Word 2010 is used for typing words, PowerPoint for inserting photos and Excel for making tablets. However, they actually are much more powerful than that.

As a unique file, Flash movie can even be supported by a few players. Therefore, from the fact that Word 2010 and PowerPoint 2010 are capable of playing Flash movie, one can trace how powerful Word 2010 and PowerPoint 2010 really are. Since some may have already known how to play Flash movie with PowerPoint, this post will show you how to play Flash movie with Microsoft Office Word 2010.

1. Open Word 2010, right click the "Quick Access Toolbar" and choose "Customize Quick Access Toolbar…" option in the drop-down menu.

Quick Access Toolbar

2. Click "Customize" tab and then select then select "Develop Tab" option in the drop-down menu of "Choose commands from".

Develop Tab

3. Click "Legacy Tools" in the box below "Develop Tab" and then click "OK".

Legacy Tools

4. After that, you can access to the "Legacy Tools" in the "Quick Access Toolbar".

Legacy Tools icon

5. Click "Legacy Tools" and then choose "More Controls" option.

More Controls

6. Select "Shockwave Flash Object" in the list and then click "OK".

Shockwave Flash Object

7. Then you will see a box in the Word 2010. Adjust it to the video size you want. Right click the box and choose "Property" option in the drop-down menu.

8. Type the location and the video name of the Flash movie and select "True" in "Embedmovie" option.

Property

9. After all those steps, click "Design Mode" and then you can enjoy the Flash movie with Word 2010 now.

Design Mode

Next time if something goes wrong with your Adobe Flash Player, you can try to play Flash movie with Microsoft Office Word 2010. A simple way for you to manage it is to convert Flash movie to WMV file supported by Windows Media Player with Moyea SWF to Video Converter, and then insert Windows Media Player into Word 2010. Here I will not explain it in details. If you are interested in it, you can refer to How to Insert Flv File into PowerPoint 2007.

1 comment:

  1. I've tried this type of tech support before. And it was extremely helpful!!!!

    Microsoft Software Support

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