It seems that when you import a slide from Powerpoint into Storyline 3 the Powerpoint placeholders are ignored and the imported content is placed into text boxes. At first it looks like the import to Storyline was successful but if you then try to apply a layout to the slide then your imported content is not styled according to your chosen layout. This seems to be a limitation within Storyline unless someone knows a workaround.
We are looking to convert a lot of Powerpoint slides to Storyline 3. Does anyone know how to quickly move the imported textboxes into the Storyline placeholders?
A simple example of how imported slides are unresponsive to their layout:
Create a pptx with a couple of slides using the default template.
Import the pptx into Storyline 3. The slides appear fine and the imported layouts are also there in Slide Master view.
Now make a change to one of the imported layouts in Slide Master that just came in with the imported slides. Eg right align the title and change the font style and font color.
Note how the imported slide does not adopt the new styling that you just made to it's layout. You can try resetting or re-apply the layout but it doesn't help.
If I create a NEW slide using the imported layout that I just changed in Slide Master then the new slide has no trouble adopting the styles from the layout.
It seems that although you can edit imported layouts, the imported slides that use those imported layouts do not change.
This is a major problem because I have thousands of PowerPoint slides to import to Storyline 3 and I need to be able to adjust their layouts.
Greg - I actually just posted something similar to this earlier today. I created some layouts in Powerpoint to take advantage of the ability to rename placeholder text, which you can't do in Storyline. I also wanted to leverage the ability to create different shaped image placeholders, something else you can only do in Powerpoint. My import experience was similar to yours... either the masters didn't retain the formatting or the layouts weren't entirely spot on. Seems like some limitations of the SL import. Please update the forum if you find a solution.
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A simple example of how imported slides are unresponsive to their layout:
Note how the imported slide does not adopt the new styling that you just made to it's layout. You can try resetting or re-apply the layout but it doesn't help.
If I create a NEW slide using the imported layout that I just changed in Slide Master then the new slide has no trouble adopting the styles from the layout.
It seems that although you can edit imported layouts, the imported slides that use those imported layouts do not change.
This is a major problem because I have thousands of PowerPoint slides to import to Storyline 3 and I need to be able to adjust their layouts.
Hopefully someone can help with this. Thank you
Greg - I actually just posted something similar to this earlier today. I created some layouts in Powerpoint to take advantage of the ability to rename placeholder text, which you can't do in Storyline. I also wanted to leverage the ability to create different shaped image placeholders, something else you can only do in Powerpoint. My import experience was similar to yours... either the masters didn't retain the formatting or the layouts weren't entirely spot on. Seems like some limitations of the SL import. Please update the forum if you find a solution.