I am relatively new to Storyline, but I have been using Power Point for over ten years. Do people find it easier to start a project in Power Point and then put that into Articulate, or do people find it just a easy to start a project in Articulate?
There can be benefits to story-boarding and outlining in PowerPoint, especially if you are sharing or collaborating on the file and need the outline to be more accessible, but generally I've found it easier/quicker to just do the same thing in storyline directly.
When importing the file into storyline your slide objects and animations may not be exactly how you designed them in PowerPoint. AS2 is generally pretty good about maintaining your file as you built it, but it also has less animations and sometimes formatting will move around during import, so be aware of that if you decide to start your projects in PPT.
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I just start developing in articulate.
There can be benefits to story-boarding and outlining in PowerPoint, especially if you are sharing or collaborating on the file and need the outline to be more accessible, but generally I've found it easier/quicker to just do the same thing in storyline directly.
When importing the file into storyline your slide objects and animations may not be exactly how you designed them in PowerPoint. AS2 is generally pretty good about maintaining your file as you built it, but it also has less animations and sometimes formatting will move around during import, so be aware of that if you decide to start your projects in PPT.
Thanks for the helpful information!
Pete Williams
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I agree with Jackson, don't build a project twice without pretty good reasons, and on some imports, there is a lot of rebuilding to do.
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