As title states, I am having a problem with importing a widescreen powerpoint presentation. Formatting is lost and not sizing properly. I have 5 presentations with approximately 70 slides each and do not want to rebuild each presentation. Any ideas or help?
If you open a new project from the Storyline home page, it will default to a 4:3 format. If you then import a widescreen (16:9 format) Powerpoint presentation, it will try and re-format to 4:3 to suit the current project format. I assume this is the problem you are having?
You have a couple of options:
1. Instead of creating a new project, simply select the Import option on the Storyline home page and import your presentation. Storyline will automatically create a new project containing your slides that will be in the same format as your original presentation (i.e 16:9).
2. You can create a new project, but will then need to change the Story Size from the Design menu to 16:9 before importing your presentation. This will then retain the original presentation widescreen format when it is imported. Note that if your presentation is a custom size, you can set up a custom Story Size to match.
If you are importing your presentation as a new scene within an existing project, you will need to have the entire project in a 16:9 format as I don't believe that it is possible to change the format of an individual scene compared to the rest of the project.
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Hi Bruce,
If you open a new project from the Storyline home page, it will default to a 4:3 format. If you then import a widescreen (16:9 format) Powerpoint presentation, it will try and re-format to 4:3 to suit the current project format. I assume this is the problem you are having?
You have a couple of options:
1. Instead of creating a new project, simply select the Import option on the Storyline home page and import your presentation. Storyline will automatically create a new project containing your slides that will be in the same format as your original presentation (i.e 16:9).
2. You can create a new project, but will then need to change the Story Size from the Design menu to 16:9 before importing your presentation. This will then retain the original presentation widescreen format when it is imported. Note that if your presentation is a custom size, you can set up a custom Story Size to match.
If you are importing your presentation as a new scene within an existing project, you will need to have the entire project in a 16:9 format as I don't believe that it is possible to change the format of an individual scene compared to the rest of the project.
I hope this helps.
Hi Bruce,
Thanks for reaching out and letting us know the issue you are running into.
It looks like Ned has shared your options nicely here, so just let us know if you have any further questions.
I mainly wanted to pop in and welcome you to E-Learning Heroes :)
Hi Ned,
Thanks for the information.
I ended up using a technique similar to your second suggestion.
Thanks again.
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