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...)

Mr. Kuhlmann,

I really appreciate your response!

Your feedback has helped significantly, thank you so much!

Respectfully,

Andrew Farmer

Glad that it helped.

Thanks for the follow up.

We do publish to review 360 and collect feedback from multiple people.  My question was concerning translation, and the ability to export to a powerpoint type format.

As per my message above, I'm really looking to export to a format that allows the translator to see an image of the slide for context, has the text available for translation, and also has the voiceover text all in the same place.

I have found that the XLIFF format doesn't really work for us, as not only does it not provide the image of the slide for context (eg. how much room is available on the slide for the text, etc), but also translators that are translating more to a regional dialect and/or for context often don't seem to know what XLIFF is, let alone know how to use it. 

A simple way to pull the main elements together for the translators in one place, and using software that most people have access to / know how to use would be helpful.

Amy suggestions where I can get the image, editable text, and voiceover text all in one place?  Without having to maintain separate powerpoint files with changes?

Thanks!

Hi FMPE,

With our translation methods, there isn't a one-stop shop. You'd likely need to use a combo of a Word translation document and a publish to Word so that they could see the slide images. 

I'll be curious what other folks in the community have used, and hope they'll weigh in here! 

Hi Calvin!

As of now, there isn't an option to move Storyline files back to PowerPoint. One option that I could see working for you is using the Slide Master feature. 

Slide Masters are used to control the default themes, colors, fonts, text, and objects for slides throughout your course. They're big time-savers, letting you apply the same look and feel across multiple slides all at once.

Hello Simone and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)

Thanks for contacting us to share that you are experiencing a similar issue.

You mention that it's mandatory training. Do you have an LMS for tracking this content or how are you publishing and sharing the content?

Viewing published content on a Mac is supported in these environments:

• Safari (latest version)
• Google Chrome (latest version)
• Firefox (latest version)

Hi Claude!

We don't currently offer a way to open Storyline 360 courses in PowerPoint. Storyline projects are saved as .story files which is an unsupported file type in PowerPoint. 

We'll let our community members chime in to share workarounds!

Just want to say I LOVE Storyline and our community :) I'm also adding my voice here, as I've hired a remote copy editor to revise the copy in my courses, but he'd needs the text to be selectable/editable in the version I send to make his changes, or he'd have to re-type everything. He has a Mac. A PPT file would be perfect so he could have all the slide elements in context along with editable text boxes.

If Storyline can already export each slide image (including layers) as a Word document, would it be possible to simply add a way for certain aspects of each slide to be exported as editable content?

Hi Kathryn and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)

I appreciate you chiming in to share your thoughts and use case. I've added it to our report as we continue to track user requests/needs.