Export to Powerpoint from Storyline

Hi Diana! Just wanted to pop in and let you know that replying to the forums via e-mail attaches your signature, but you are welcome to pop in and edit that while you wait on Steve to respond :)

In speaking to Diana, I realized that I misspoke above. Don't pull out the .swf file. leave it in the folder with the other stuff when you click it. Of course you then project your desktop with your LCD projector after maximizing your browser to full screen.  If you published the story to a zip file, be sure to unzip it.

Thanks Steve for coming back to clarify. 

I get why you can't export Storyline to PPT. It's a very different critter.

But, earlier in the thread, someone mentioned what I do: if an instructor wants to demonstrate an application to a live audience, I'll record it as a sim, but then I'll mess about with it in Storyline, changing the pause points, adding control buttons, pop-up questions, etc... 

In short, it's a PPT deck that reinforces the instructor, providing them with a smarter deck than PPT in that it knows exactly when to stop, and then, when it's OK to run, the simulation runs along... 

I then publish these courses a web content and put them on a file server on our intranet (don't try running them off a file server!). If I have a PPT deck that's the backbone of my course, I'll put links in that deck to my content that's published on the web server.

Works great! And it's less filling.

Cool - thanks for sharing that here Chris. 

My pleasure Ashley. I had been using lots of VBA in my PPT decks to make them do what I wanted (for instance, instead of using a flip chart to capture stuff, I'd create a slide with a giant text field in it that the faciliator could just type feedback from the class into).

But, if I use Storyline, I can simply create a big text variable to capture that.

Makes for smarter, more interactive presentations.

Hi Jeanne,

This thread is a bit older - but you also mentioned you're working with tech support? Can you share the case number with us here so that I could check into that as well?  

Also, what update and version of Storyline are you using? 

Thank you!  Any help you can provide is appreciated.  Case # is 00620520.  

Storyline 2, update 6:  1507.2315

Yesterday I remembered that strange stuff can happen if filename/path is too long so I shortened, but it is still occurring.

Thanks Jean - and I see you're working with Eloise and I'll continue to follow along. 

Jean:

When you're presenting the content that you have in Storyline as if it were a more interactive PPT deck, do you have a remote pointer?

I know Kensington and Logitech both make devices for this, and, if you use devices like these, then you can just change your trigger to a mouse click sort of event. Our trainers use wireless mice and have used my Storyline simulations to demonstrate how to use software (if you're wondering why you don't just demo the actual software, sometimes it's just not practical; for instance, if the screen is busy, you may make it easier for your participants to see what's going on if you stick in a zoom region).

Some of our trainers have also found remote click apps for their cell phones that seem to work pretty well.