I am new to Storyline and I am trying to import a corporate PowerPoint template. I have successfully imported the slides as a template by importing my PowerPoint presentation into Storyline and saving as a template. But now the color family has not imported along with it. Also, some the images that were "editable" in PowerPoint are not fixed into the presentation. Is there a way to change this?
Importing Powerpoint into Storyline is not a one to one conversion as described here. You may find some variations in font size, line spacing, alignment, colors, or bullets. If these changes are undesirable, you'll need to make adjustments after importing your PowerPoint presentation, using Storyline's fontand paragraph tools.
I know how to import a PowerPoint into Storyline, however, I wanted to import a particular template theme so that I can create a slide using that background in Articulate itself (versus creating the slide in PPT and importing it). Is this possible?
Is the template theme one you've created in Powerpoint? You'll need to have slides to import into Storyline, you can't import just the theme itself. You can create new design themes in Storyline that you can save and use for future Storyline project.
Not sure if this would be of interest, but I discovered a workaround for importing text as formatted in MS PowerPont, including bullets. I was a given a presentation with over 100 slides of text. When I imported it to Storyline, of course the level 2 and 3 bullets did not format as desired, and the font changed dramatically.
With that much text to fix, I took a shortcut:
1. Saved the PowerPoint as a Picture Presentation
2. Imported the picture presentation file to storyline
Drawback - no searching on text, but you could add notes that would help.
I'm also having quite some troubles importing pptx files into Storyline. The original sin to me is exactly in a sentence of the first reply to this post initiator: importing powerpoint slides is "not a one to one" operation. Well, it should be, because after spending quite some time and effort to fine tune your powerpoint slide deck look'n'feel, you really don;t want to do it once again in Storyline after the import; especially if your data source is powerpoint, which means that each time you have a change in the slides, you have to import them again in SL360 and then re do the editing. Wouldn't be possible to be given at least the choice to keep a 1-to-1 match to powerpoint?
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Hi Emily and welcome to Heroes!
Importing Powerpoint into Storyline is not a one to one conversion as described here. You may find some variations in font size, line spacing, alignment, colors, or bullets. If these changes are undesirable, you'll need to make adjustments after importing your PowerPoint presentation, using Storyline's font and paragraph tools.
Hi All-
I know how to import a PowerPoint into Storyline, however, I wanted to import a particular template theme so that I can create a slide using that background in Articulate itself (versus creating the slide in PPT and importing it). Is this possible?
Thanks,
Beth
Hi Beth and welcome to Heroes!
Is the template theme one you've created in Powerpoint? You'll need to have slides to import into Storyline, you can't import just the theme itself. You can create new design themes in Storyline that you can save and use for future Storyline project.
Not sure if this would be of interest, but I discovered a workaround for importing text as formatted in MS PowerPont, including bullets. I was a given a presentation with over 100 slides of text. When I imported it to Storyline, of course the level 2 and 3 bullets did not format as desired, and the font changed dramatically.
With that much text to fix, I took a shortcut:
1. Saved the PowerPoint as a Picture Presentation
2. Imported the picture presentation file to storyline
Drawback - no searching on text, but you could add notes that would help.
Thanks Barbara for sharing that workaround here!
Hi,
I'm also having quite some troubles importing pptx files into Storyline. The original sin to me is exactly in a sentence of the first reply to this post initiator: importing powerpoint slides is "not a one to one" operation. Well, it should be, because after spending quite some time and effort to fine tune your powerpoint slide deck look'n'feel, you really don;t want to do it once again in Storyline after the import; especially if your data source is powerpoint, which means that each time you have a change in the slides, you have to import them again in SL360 and then re do the editing. Wouldn't be possible to be given at least the choice to keep a 1-to-1 match to powerpoint?
Hey, Simone! Thanks for adding your voice here. We'd love to help! 😊
I just replied to you in our conversation happening here; linking the two for anyone else who may be following along!
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