How to Export Storyline 360 project to PowerPoint?

OK, for those interested, the closest workaround I have found is to do the following (sorry it's long but I have had to write these instructions for my colleague). It's a bit labour-intensive (outputting one slide at a time) but you'll get as close to a working PPT file (with separate, editable elements) as you can get. You'll need Acrobat Pro for this workaround:

1. Publish your course to Web format
2. Export individual pages from your course
   1. Open the course in your favourite web browser
   2. Go to the desired slide
   3. Set the slide up how you'd like it to be seen (ie. animations completed, tick/reveal/complete as wanted)
   4. Print the PAGE to PDF with the following settings (note: the settings will remain the same when printing the next slide)
      1. Destination: PDF
      2. Orientation: Landscape
      3. Paper size: anything larger than your course (as shown in Acrobat's preview) - we'll crop it later.
      4. Margins: None (puts the course flush to top of the page)
      5. Scale: Default (or adjust as needed)
      6. Background graphics: ticked (to show the bounds of your course)
      7. Save: Name it with the appropriate page/slide number
   5. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for every slide you want to output
3. Build a PDF of the complete course
   1. Open Acrobat Pro and Choose File > Create > Combine Files into a Single PDF
   2. Drag all of your PDF files onto the window - they should be in correct order
   3. Press the Combine button (this builds a multi-page PDF)
   4. Crop the course
      1. Select the Crop tool (in the "Edit PDF" tools panel)
      2. Drag the marquee to the bottom-left and bottom-right corners (you can use the Control-space and Control-Alt-Space keys to zoom in/out on the corners while doing this)
      3. Press the Enter key to invoke the Set Page Boxes window
      4. Set "Page Range" to All so all pages are cropped
      5. Save the PDF (just for good measure)
4. Convert the PDF to PowerPoint
   1. Select File > Export to > Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation
   2. Name & Save it
5. Open the resulting file in PowerPoint

NOTES (my quick observations - don't hold me to them):

• Some elements may not convert properly (eg. gradients, vectors with transparency).
• Text and items outside of the view of a Scrolling Panel are lost.
• Some graphics may be grouped together and can easily be ungrouped.
• It seems to build Slide Masters (not perfectly accurate but a good start).
• Images seem to retain their original size (ie. they're NOT re-sampled and therefore don't lose quality)
• Hyperlinks get lost (although a mailto: link still worked in the exported PDF but didn't work in the final PPT file). You'll have to add them back to the editable text in PPT.

That's all I have come across so far. I hope this helps someone from having to completely rebuild complex pages, until Articulate adds the Publish to PPT option in the future (putting it out there...)