Custom Formatting for Word Output (Publishing to Word)

Sep 15, 2016

For Storyline 2...

I'm trying to customize the Word output so that it publishes out of Storyline formatted in a specific way. We need to have specific fonts and colors to meet branding requirements. We also need a logo, but I'd be willing to add that manually if need be.

We use the Storyline Word output to create transcripts for our courses. Our current process is to take the Storyline Word output and copy/paste as plain text into our internal, branded Word template. Then, we have to strip out all of the slide numbers and slide images, and then apply the template styles to all of the text in the Word document. We write courses for software, so there is a lot of inline formatting involved to call out UI options. Needless to say, it's a pain, and I haven't found solutions to this on the forums, with other Storyline users, or with support.

I realize that there is no current way to strip out the slide numbers or the images (feature request!). However, I'd like to know if we can manipulate the template that Storyline uses to produce the Word output. I've tried playing around with the template.dot file that's in C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Articulate, but it doesn't seem to do anything special when I do that.

Is there another template file that I'm overlooking? Or is there another trick someone has figured out?

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Leslie McKerchie
Staff

over 7 years ago09/15/16 at 8:25 pm (UTC)

Hi Frankie!

Outside of manually doing so, I'm not sure. Hopefully if someone in the community has completed a similar request, they will be able to pop in and assist you here.

Lisa Spirko

over 5 years ago01/04/19 at 3:11 pm (UTC)

Hi! Was there anything more discovered bout this topic? I sure would like to be able to customize the Word output for our needs, too.

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard
Staff

over 5 years ago01/04/19 at 4:39 pm (UTC)

Hi Lisa,

Publishing to Word from Storyline will still generate a series of screenshots of each slide and the text from notes appearing below that. Each individual slide will appear on its own page within Word.

What further customizations are you looking to add?

Lisa Spirko

over 5 years ago01/04/19 at 4:50 pm (UTC)

I'd like to be able to what the original author of this post wanted to do: customize the template used to generate Word output so that I don't have keep manually tinkering with styles, fonts, etc. every time I publish to Word.

over 5 years ago01/04/19 at 5:33 pm (UTC)

Thanks for the reply, Lisa! Storyline doesn't offer that kind of "under the hood" access to the Word publishing process. But if anyone in the community can chime in with experience this time around, it would be appreciated!

Lisa Spirko

over 5 years ago01/04/19 at 5:50 pm (UTC)

Thanks for your response, Crystal. Since I posted an hour ago, I worked around the issue by creating a separate Word template with as much customized as I could do (style formatting for title, subtitle, heading 1, etc.; document margins; headers; footers). Then in the published Word output, I just attached the new template, and it automatically updated that formatting. I'll still have to manually tinker with a few other things, but that took care of the bulk of reformatting I had to do.

Thanks!

Lisa

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard
Staff

over 5 years ago01/04/19 at 6:45 pm (UTC)

Thanks for that update, Lisa! I'm happy you found a method that'll work for you.

Custom Formatting for Word Output (Publishing to Word)

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