Monthly Archives: November 2008

ActiveX is the successor to OLE 1 and OLE 2. In clear cut, unambiguous terms, this means that ActiveX is a technology that allows components, clients or controls to run individually integrated in another application. The control could be a Shockwave Flash control. The applications are usually web browsers like Microsoft Internet Explorer. Alternatively they ...

This is from Jim Gordon, a Microsoft Office for Mac MVP. Movies in PowerPoint for Mac are supported by Apple QuickTime. Unfortunately, Adobe, the creators of Flash do not make a Flash codec for QuickTime, and no third-party app exists that I know of to support Adobe Flash in QuickTime. This wasn’t always the case ...

The options that allow you to insert Flash movies in PowerPoint 2007 (and maybe later versions) are found in the Developer tab of the Ribbon.By default, this tab is not visible (as shown in Figure 1) -- and has to be turned on. If the Developer tab is indeed visible in your Ribbon (see Figure ...