Combining or Merging Slides in Storyline

Feb 09, 2015

My client wants me to combine or merge slides in Storyline so that the existing 190 slides with audio at 30 to 40 seconds each becomes 80 slides of 60 to 80 seconds each. What is the best and quickest way to do this? The original project was created in Powerpoint and imported into Storyline and then tweaked for publishing. I know that doing this in PowerPoint would be long and painful so I hope Storyline can be used to combine slides quicker...

6 Replies

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard
Staff

9 years ago02/10/15 at 3:04 pm (UTC)

Hi Tom,

There isn't an option to combine slides within Storyline - you'd need to transfer over the slide content to merge them and extend the timeline. Is there a reason that they would like less slides overall with a longer timeline? If the user will need to be on the slide for the entire length of the timeline - you could set it up to advance automatically instead of by user from slide to slide.

Steve Flowers

9 years ago02/10/15 at 3:19 pm (UTC)

There isn't a super quick way to do this but you can make it less painful as long as you aren't using layers on each slide.

Select All and Group the objects on your "front slide" Create a cuepoint at the end of your front slide timeline.
Move to the "back slide (second part)" and Select All and group the objects on this slide.
Now copy the selected group from your back slide and move to the front slide. Paste the group. Move the group to the line up the start of the back slide group to the cuepoint you created.
Select All and Ungroup. Now cleanup any timelines that extend to the end (likely background objects) if they overlap where they aren't supposed to.