Problem Publishing to MS Word

Jun 19, 2013

When I attempt tp publish from Storyling into MS Word I get an error that the file "template.dot" is bing modifed.

After telling the system NOT to save it, I then end up with a word file that is read-only and owned by the administrator.

Can anyone help a poor fella?

35 Replies
Yan C

Anyone having problem with images for slides being output as black image even though I selected the image frames in the video for each slide. 

Most images that are black is from a slide that is playing a video. Even though I selected the frames of each video to show an image, it still outputs as a black image. Any ideas? 

Yan C

I am publishing to Word without showing layers but showing notes.

It seems there is no way around of grabbing a picture frame from a video layer to show an image when publishing to word. It grabs the first frame of the video so it is just black slides when shown in word doc. 

I have about 100 slides with 3/4 of them being video. Using the poster frame option would mean I have to upload each video with a poster frame. 

Paul Trainer

Possible Solution - that worked for me! : )

I just got hit with the same issue while publishing to MS Word, luckily I managed to solve the issue quickly. I hope this works for everybody else too.

The issue in my case was the total character length of the Title and Location. I think this is why the problem appears randomly as some are over this limit while others are not. 

Make sure your project name is not too long in the Title and Location field

I was saving to a local folder, still if I make the filename length too long I get the dreaded “The folder “XXXXXX” is read-only, being used by another process…

The problem on corporate networks is that even “local” user folders can have a much longer name than what it may appear on surface, so users having this problem may be reaching the 255 character path/filename limit on Windows.

I don’t know if this is will solve everyone’s issue but hopefully it will help most.

 : )

Good Luck,

Paul

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