# Loading text and PowerPoint? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [April 2, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-and-powerpoint/184131 "2006-04-02T14:46:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@yossarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/yossarian)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-and-powerpoint/184131/1 "2006-04-02T14:46:59Z")
I’m trying to embed a Flash file that loads data from an external text file into PowerPoint but it doens’t work. If I embed a standard Flash file without loading data then it works fine. Does anyone know what I need to do - is it even possible? Yossi ---
**Author:** ![yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@yossarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/yossarian)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-and-powerpoint/184131/2 "2006-04-03T13:17:49Z")
no idea? ---
**Author:** ![rhamej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@rhamej](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rhamej)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-and-powerpoint/184131/3 "2006-04-04T03:12:02Z")
Not sure why it wouldnt work. Maybe you can find an answer here =) [http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn\_14235](http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14235) ---
**Author:** ![yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@yossarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/yossarian)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 12:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-and-powerpoint/184131/4 "2006-04-04T12:09:30Z")
Nothing there but I found [**this site**](http://www.flashgeek.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?/topic/1/546.html) after a few click which hopefully can help:beam: Thanks for your link though! Anyone else got more ideas thatI could try?