Help Exporting Flash CS3

Hi guys, I'm new in the forum and I don't know if what I need
has already been published.
I'm using Flash CS3, I'm learning how create text effects and
animations. My problem is that when I export movie and save this as
.SWF, it save it succesfully but my parters can't see the movie
even having Flash Player. If they open it with Internet Explorer
they can see the movie.
There's a way they can see the flash movie without set up
Internet Explorer to open it?
Thanks.

>I followed directions located in Adobe Captivate 3's help
menu about
>exporting
> to Flash CS3. I have tried both exporting from Captivate
and Importing
> from
> Flash to move my captivate project into flash. About 5
times, an error
> saying
> "Unknown error" had occurred popped up. I closed Flash
and Captivate a
> couple
> times and then it worked. Several new errors popped up
during the
> "successful" import---worse yet, the captivate project
imported terribly!
> Pieces of the demonstration were all over the stage.
>
> Long story short, something is wrong. Is this a Vista
thing? Does anyone
> know about any of this?
>
Doesn't seem to be specific to Vista.
I've had similar issues trying to export to Flash. But
sometimes it seems to
work beautifully (although always with an error message about
"unable to
find Flash.exe" or similar), aside from in issue with the
backgrounds all
importing to Flash at the wrong size. This is easily worked
around, and has
been discussed here a number of times.
My first suggestion to you is to try rebooting your machine
before trying to
export again.
Steve
http://twitter.com/Stevehoward999
Adobe Community Expert: eLearning, Mobile and Devices
European eLearning Summit - EeLS
Adobe-sponsored eLearning conference.
http://www.elearningsummit.eu

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