Convert PowerPoint to Flash Manually (Part 2) in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows

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In the first part of this tutorial, we shown you how to export your PowerPoint slides as sequentially numbered WMFs. Now, let us show you how these WMFs can be imported inside Adobe Flash.

Importing Files into Flash

1. Create a new Flash document, as shown in Figure 6, below.
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   Figure 6: New Flash document
2. In the newly opened document, click the first keyframe where you want to start. Now, choose the File | Import | Import to Stage option, as shown in Figure 7, below.
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   Figure 7: Import to stage
3. Doing so will open the Import dialog box, as shown in Figure 8, below. Navigate to the folder where the WMF files were saved, and select the first file. Click the Open button.
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   Figure 8: Import
4. This action will prompt a message asking if you want to import the entire sequence, as shown in Figure 9, below. Click the Yes button.
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   Figure 9: Import images in a sequence
5. By doing so, Flash imports each successive WMF file onto a consecutive frame in the timeline, and makes each frame a keyframe, as shown in Figure 10, below. Save the Flash (.FLA) file.
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   Figure 10: Imported images in sequence
6. The imported .WMF files are vector files, and you can edit their text in Flash. You can also ungroup other content on the WMF slides, and then edit those objects individually, to ungroup in Flash, choose Modify | Ungroup, as shown in Figure 11, below.
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   Figure 11: Ungroup slide objects in Flash
8. The ungroup option converts all PowerPoint slide objects as individual components in Flash that can be animated using native Flash options. Also, remember that if you have tables or charts in your WMF, the Modify | Break Apart option may work better than ungrouping, although you might find that your chart is now a hundred small elements that you will have to manually select and group to create that whole chart again!
7. Make sure to save your FLA file.
8. In the next part of this tutorial, we'll show you how to export the Flash file as SWF that you can share with others.

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