You can certainly import your Powerpoint slides into Storyline, and if it didn't pick up that they were master slides it should be easy enough to copy those items onto a master slide or save it as a .storytemplate file that you can use to start all your new Storyline projects.
Once you set that up, you can start a new project by just opening Storyline and choose from your templates. Here's some steps on how to do this in Storyline 3.
To follow-up to John's first question, is there a way to upload a ppt slide master template into SL? Or do we have to create a presentation that includes each slide from the slide master?
I've noticed that if a PowerPoint has mulitple slide masters, in order to get all the slides to carry over to Storyline 360 when importing (for the purpose of creating a template in Storyline) I have to include at least 1 slide from each section of a slide master. Is this the way it is supposed to work?
Correct- the slide you import in, will carry with it that set of masters. If you have a bunch of slide masters, you'll want to import at least one slide from each set to carry over all the masters.
You could easily import those into a new scene to make it easy to remove the ones you don't need, and the masters will remain intact in Storyline if you delete the individual slides.
Hi there, Steve. Just to clarify, do you have a single slide master with multiple layouts? Or are you using a PPT file with multiple masters and their associated layouts?
Storyline will focus on the slides that you're choosing to import from PowerPoint. Let's say in PowerPoint you have 3 slide masters, each with multiple layouts. When you choose to import slides from that file into Storyline, each slide will bring with it the slide master it's using. You'll only get the masters that are being used by the imported slides. So if you import two slides from that file, at most you'd be getting 2 of the 3 slide masters.
Are you seeing something different on your end? If you can share your source PPT file here, I'm happy to do some testing to make sure we're treating those imports properly!
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Hi John,
You can certainly import your Powerpoint slides into Storyline, and if it didn't pick up that they were master slides it should be easy enough to copy those items onto a master slide or save it as a .storytemplate file that you can use to start all your new Storyline projects.
Once you set that up, you can start a new project by just opening Storyline and choose from your templates. Here's some steps on how to do this in Storyline 3.
Hi Ashley,
To follow-up to John's first question, is there a way to upload a ppt slide master template into SL? Or do we have to create a presentation that includes each slide from the slide master?
Hi Angelica,
When you import just one slide from a PowerPoint file into Storyline, all of the slide master layouts come along with that slide.
Does your PowerPoint slide master template file have any slides in it?
Hello everyone,
I've noticed that if a PowerPoint has mulitple slide masters, in order to get all the slides to carry over to Storyline 360 when importing (for the purpose of creating a template in Storyline) I have to include at least 1 slide from each section of a slide master. Is this the way it is supposed to work?
Thanks!
Hi Steve,
Correct- the slide you import in, will carry with it that set of masters. If you have a bunch of slide masters, you'll want to import at least one slide from each set to carry over all the masters.
You could easily import those into a new scene to make it easy to remove the ones you don't need, and the masters will remain intact in Storyline if you delete the individual slides.
Hi there, Steve. Just to clarify, do you have a single slide master with multiple layouts? Or are you using a PPT file with multiple masters and their associated layouts?
Storyline will focus on the slides that you're choosing to import from PowerPoint. Let's say in PowerPoint you have 3 slide masters, each with multiple layouts. When you choose to import slides from that file into Storyline, each slide will bring with it the slide master it's using. You'll only get the masters that are being used by the imported slides. So if you import two slides from that file, at most you'd be getting 2 of the 3 slide masters.
Are you seeing something different on your end? If you can share your source PPT file here, I'm happy to do some testing to make sure we're treating those imports properly!
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