I am able to embed a flash movie into a PowerPoint presentation. 
However, I can't figure out how to run the flash movie in the
background.  I was hoping to insert text and bullets on top of a flash
movie background and have been unsuccessful.  Is anyone able to
provide step by step instructions to accomplish this task or have I
encountered a software limitation.  If so, I will just use flash
bullets and banners.  Thanks.

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Request for Question Clarification by webadept-ga on 21 Jul 2002 18:58 PDT

What powerpoint are you using (version number and OS) and which Flash
version are you using? I've seen this done.

webadept-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by webadept-ga on 21 Jul 2002 20:20 PDT

Ooops.. not enough coffee. I didn't get that part about you wanting to
put them "on top" of the flash player, when I read this last time.
Nope.. I know of no way to do this in anything, let alone Powerpoint.
The player sits on top.

webadept-ga

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Clarification of Question by n2film-ga on 22 Jul 2002 19:37 PDT

Thanks for everyone's input ... I'll stick with flash bullets and
banners. The text is not in flash so that an end user can easily edit
the presentation without knowing flash.  Even though the flash is very
subtle, zerocattle is probably correct...it probably would be a little
too "sickening" if it comprised the entire background.

After doing some research online, and testing your scenario in
Powerpoint myself, it has become apparent that there is no way to do
what you are asking in Microsoft Powerpoint at this time.

If I may comment as well, it's probably not a good idea (for your
viewers) to have text on a moving background. Unless you are trying to
make them feel ill (reading on a moving background can cause motion
sickness).

:) zerocattle-ga

This is to confirm that Flash animation cannot be set as background in
PowerPoint. If you really need background animation, you might want to
try GIF animation to be set as your Master Background in the lastest
PowerPoint.
Also, as zerocattle said, animated background is just plain ugly.

If you need animated flash as a 'background', why not just add another
layer of the text in front of that animation in flash, then embed
those in one PowerPoint slide. The effect should be the same.

Since you've decided not to go with the animated background, I'll post
this as a comment.

1) You can embed an AVI as the background of a PPT file.

2) You can convert a flash animation to AVI with SWF2Video from
Flashants.
http://www.flashants.com/root/swf2video.shtml