Turn your published doc file into an image only slideshow
Dec 09, 2013
By
John Denner
So I stumbled across this neat trick that I think some people might like.
Microsoft office files with the "x" in the extension (docx, pptx, xlsx) are really just zip files with all the images, audio, etc... in them.
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So what I thought I'd try was publishing my project in Storyline as a word file.
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Save it as a 2010 file in word (docx).
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Change the filename from whatever.docx to whatever.zip. (You can skip this step if you open the file with a program like 7-Zip)
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Open the file.
Now all the "screenshots" that are in the doc file are available inside a media directory to put into a quick image only slide show using Picasa or whatever.
There are many uses for "unzipping" newer MS office files to get to the embedded content but I thought the workflow of getting all the screenshots of every slide and every layer and being able to present it in a image only format was pretty cool and might be helpful to others.
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Thanks for sharing that here John!
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