How to embed swf (shockwave) files into Wordpress

I’ve been using a handy free application from ANVSOFT called Flash Slide Show Maker to create flash movies of my pictures to run as slide shows on my My Space account. It’s simple to use and best of all, it’s free. The free version adds a single slide at the end of the show with the name of the company and a link. It’s not as intrusive as many of the other free apps out there. The app creates a swf file and the corresponding code you need to embed into My Space. Everything worked great until I tried to embed the movie into my Wordpress blog. No matter what I did, it would just reformat the code. After googling around, I found this plugin to do just that. After several attempts, I couldn’t get it to work so I just gave up and removed it. Back to square one and more searching before I found that Wordpress does not need anything special to embed swf files at all. But you do have to disable the visual rich editor before embedding the code. This can be done in the Users tab toward the bottom. Just uncheck the box that reads: Use the visual rich editor when writing. Now you can simply enter the embed code and everything works just like this.