Export to Powerpoint from Storyline

Hi Helen! I would not want to be responsible for prioritizing and understanding the needs of all of our users and the market. The form goes to our development team for review and the number submitted helps determine users impacted as well as requesting. It's still not a guarantee of implementation.

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Has anything been done about exporting to PowerPoint? I notice several of the requests went in over 3 years ago...that seems like a long time. Anyone have new solutions?

Hi Alicia,

Since Storyline includes a number of interactive elements along with things such as timelines, layers, states, etc. there hasn't been a change in our inability to export to Powerpoint. That being said, I know it's been talked about a lot here - and so our team will continue to discuss and evaluate feature requests as they come in. 

Best I can think of would be to export to Word, save as PDF, then run it through some OCR tool. But that's a pretty roundabout trip when the text is there in the obfuscated .js and the working file

I also endorse the need for a feature that would take SL either back to PowerPoint, XML, or just plain text. 

I generally begin SL2 work with a PowerPoint file as part of a collaborative workflow, or just for speed, efficiency and the option to single source materials out for different uses.

However, I am now charged with taking a big, native SL2 course back into an instructor-led format, and this is looking like a cut and paste operation - blah.

Using materials designed self-paced SL content as the backdrop for facilitated instructor led events is far from ideal, as message design and pacing for the two use cases is very different.

This is as bad an idea as trying to use unmodified instructor-led decks as e-learning slides. Further the notion that "SL is a Lexus, PowerPoint is a Ford Focus" is also misguided.

Haters gonna hate, but PowerPoint is an excellent, highly efficient tool for its particular use case, if not all use cases.

Shudder at the thought of using it, but Adobe's bug fest, Captivate, exports editable Word, XML, etc. Lack of an export feature is very significant missing piece of an otherwise great product.

Brom Kim (posting as Robert Connor)

Thanks Brom for sharing that insight here and I know it's been a ongoing topic as you'll see by this thread. The current set up of Storyline and the interactivity involved doesn't allow for the export to Powerpoint, but if you just need the text items only you could look at the Translation Export which would get all the text items for you to use somewhere else. 

This would be really helpful for me too!  In my case, I am developing an eLearning course as pre-training for a face-to-face boot camp.  I have 10 SMEs who will be doing PowerPoint presentations and hands-on activities.  We want the whole event to have the same look and feel so in this case, being able to save a PPT theme or template that I could share with them would be very helpful.  It's not difficult to just recreate what I did in Storyline in PowerPoint, it would just be be a convenient time saver.

Hi Nikki,

You're welcome to share your thoughts in the form of a feature request here as well. 

I'm sorry but everyone just seems to go around in circles and the point is - we need to be able to provide an editable version of Storyline to people who do not have it. Whether it it PPT or Word. I'm sitting with great frustration at this point to have to translate existing content into Spanish, German and Polish... and now because it is not editable, updates are being sent to and fro, with version upon version control to be put in place. If they had it from the beginning we would have had this done in a week. Now it is taking 2 months as our offices are situated internationally.

Hi Andre! Looks like this is something that you've previously discussed with Ali here as well. Sounds like you may wish to share your thoughts with our product development team here.

Purists aside. Everyone would be happy if you could simple export each slide to jpegs. Something powerpoint has done for years now. I've run into a scenario where I have this need but I'm taking screen shots. Time consuming, not idea, but I have 63 modules to produce off last years content in two weeks. Products need versatility, sometimes done is better than perfect.