Hi, I would be grateful for any advice on how to export or convert an existing Articulate Storyline 360 project into a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation? We use Articulate often but on an upcoming occasion we need to be able to quickly export/convert our .story presentations to PPT; any solutions? Thank you so much! Respectfully, Andrew Farmer

Here's the thing - I need to create downloadable job aids to go with our elearning. I don't need animations or triggers for handouts. If I was able to export to PPT, I'd have at least a similar looking framework from which to create complimentary materials. Without the option to export to PPT I'm left with creating it from grainy screenshots, or converting to Word and then converting to PPT which again, leaves the visual quality lacking. I know our c-suite is looking for all our materials to have the same high quality, and I'd like to give it to them without having to recreate the wheel from scratch for every single project. I'm reading posts about this from 4+ years ago, and it makes me fret this isn't going to be a priority for some time to come. I just want to put in my 2 cents - I'm jammed for time and recreating already edited and lovely content is a bummer.

Keep in mind that Storyline and PowerPoint are two different applications with different programming and file names. They may look similar, but they don't work the same way or have the same features. When Storyline imports PowerPoint, it's looking inside the PowerPoint file, seeing what's there and rebuilding the content in Storyline. It's creating Storyline slides based on what PowerPoint says is in the PowerPoint slides. Not much different than you opening a blank slide and then building a Storyline slide based on what you see in PowerPoint. That's my non-technical explanation. :) In reverse, PowerPoint doesn't have a feature to open a Storyline file and rebuild the Storyline content as PowerPoint slides. And Storyline is not going to output to PowerPoint because of the interactive features such as layers, variables, the various triggers, drag and drops, etc. PowerPoint wouldn't know what to do with those things. With that said, I looked over the questions in the thread and here are some workarounds/ideas for those who want their Storyline content in PowerPoint. Most of these do not take much time and are fairly simple to do. Start your course design with PowerPoint. If you are always running PowerPoint content and Storyline content in tandem. I'd build all of your core content in PowerPoint. When it's complete, you import to Storyline and then add your interactive elements. If you need to make modifications to a few slides, modify the PowerPoint, import into Storyline, and delete the old one. That works if you're not changing a lot of content. So PowerPoint is always the core content that is signed off on before you start working in Storyline. Use the screen capture method I described above. That works well and doesn't take long. Blog post and tutorial. Publish Storyline to Word to have a Presentation File This is super easy and only takes a few minutes. The output is a PowerPoint file with all of your Storyline content and you can make it interactive (as much as PPT can handle) Publish as Word. This publishes to an older version so people can open it. Open the Word, save as .docx to convert it. Unzip the Word docx to expose the images. Import the images into PowerPoint and you're done. Tutorial with tips on editing and adding interactions Publish to Word to make edits. This works when you have a reviewer who doesn't have Storyline but needs to edit the text in the slides. Follow the publish to Word instructions above. Work from either the Word doc or do the PPT import to see the images better. Export a translation version. Make text edits in the translation. Reimport into Storyline. All of your edits are in Storyline. Tutorial to show how that works. Only One Storyline author Have the people build whatever they want in PowerPoint and then you import those slides into Storyline, apply your theme settings/layouts. If that's something you do quite a bit, I'd create a master slide that has the layouts and whatnot to map to what you do in Storyline.

Ok, that's not the best option. Is this something that Articulate is working on?

I have been searching for a solution to this as well, and today I tried this with some success. Publish from Storyline 360 to Word with Large screenshot size and ticked show layers and show slide notes. (I have my text/audio saved as notes to act as the transcript for accessibility feature) Once open in Word, I saved the file as a PDF. In Acrobat DC Pro, I opened the PDF and then exported the PDF as a PowerPoint file. This brings in each slide with a screenshot of the slide as well as the notes. It is a bit fiddly, but I find this much quicker than taking screenshots of each slide then adding in all my text. I hope this helps.

Just to add to the conversation, I think it is clear that a export to PPT is a feature that users need and want and I don't understand Articulates push back. I understand triggers, interactivity etc can't be used in PPT. However 99% of elearning projects developed (that need exporting to PPT) are simple text and images with the occasional layer. Why is it so difficult to export the content only to pptx? People do not expect the PPT to act like storyline. Just like exporting to video I would not expect interactivity. Saying this, I must say the export to video is a great feature. The workarounds from staff are not viable solutions for large corporate organisations, time to stop asking why and ask yourself how. I don't believe this one is too hard for your developers and would add real value to the product.

How to Export Storyline 360 project to PowerPoint?

DesignsOnline
Community Member
5 years ago
Hi all,

Exporting to Powerpoint is something our clients (large organizations) really need, too. They are changing some of their training due to the pandemic.

Some sales people need the PPTs to 'speak to them' live in groups, and also to review while traveling. Word just doesn't work for this, for several reasons. Some executives are not in the office much and need something offline.

Tom's video was helpful for images, but higher resolution slide images/screenshots would be welcomed, and it's imperative that all the notes are included for each slide.

Thanks for considering to add this needed functionality to Storyline 360!
hbc
Community Member
4 years ago
Adding our vote here to enable exporting to PPT in future updates. We LOVE using articulate/storyline; however, we have some clients who insist on receiving PPT versions (period, end of story). It's really tedious to have to convert this by hand. Thanks!
JeremyStump
Community Member
4 years ago
Having a PowerPoint export feature is also something that our team could use as well.
Will_Findlay
Community Member
4 years ago
We often get (dreaded) requests from SMEs like this for content that used to be in PowerPoint: "Can you send me the PowerPoint file of that course?"

We then have to explain that we have made updates since the course was converted from PowerPoint and that the only PowerPoint files we can give them are old.

There is a current option to Publish to Word. What if there was a similar option that just sent an image capture of each Storyline Slide as the slide, and pasted the notes into the PowerPoint notes panel?
JuneDunlap
Community Member
3 years ago
Kenneth,

Did you find a solution or are you saying you need the ability to do this as well?

June
WendyChristophe
Community Member
3 years ago
I'm fine with the Word version that gets produced. I would like to be able to have the customers download the file for reference material. The Word is fine, except any links I used are not clickable. If that was an option, I would be fine. My option is to just add the links under each slide image.
ebrukonyar
Community Member
3 years ago
Hi All,

It is a pity that I am reading these comments and they are still not solved. I also worked with an outsource company to create e-learnings by Storyline and they are used as e-learnings and now our SMEs will use this information for shorth virtual sessions and we want to use the same information and make small revisions too, not use as is. And we just want to convert them into ppt. Even if they are different companies storlyine should work with them to help us, the customers. And solutions as of today?

Thanks, Ebru
ScottWilson-f53
Community Member
3 years ago
I was looking for a similar option. I would have been happy with publishing to MS Word, but the text that was on slides in Storyline is converted to images. So from an accessibility POV, visual impaired learners cannot view those published Word Documents.
BrookeJohnson-a
Community Member
2 years ago
Something that I would appreciate is if we'd be able to have the slides exported as a PDF vs word so there was a higher resolution images to copy and paste into PowerPoint. I understand that we're not able to directly import, but for me I prefer to build in Storyline (I find it a much better design tool vs PPT). Obviously we would lose any interactivity, but I'd still prefer to be able to copy and paste the slide for example into PPT (even as an image!). Other than screenshots, do y'all have any other recommendations here?
- TomKuhlmann
  Staff
  2 years ago
  If you want screen grabs of your course, I've found one of the easiest things to do is set your course at the resolution you want. Then use Screentogif (free) to record going through your course.
  
  I detail how to do that in this blog post.
  - Will_Findlay
    Community Member
    2 years ago
    Tom, thank you so much for this video and for this method. We often get requests from lawyers and other regulating agencies wanting paper copies of courses. I will definitely use this method that you've outlined so well here in the future when I get a request like this. It will make things so much faster.
BrettConlon
Community Member
10 months ago
Yeah, wow, that's weird. It's showing the PDF font as T1 - is that what you've used in the Storyline file? The resulting font in the PPT file is Times New Roman. There's some parts of ther PPT file that are usable, but for the most part... it's a mess!

Perhaps try replacing the font with something more "generic" in the Storyline file, just for the export process, then change it back when it's in PPT?

Are you using current versions of Storyline/Acrobat?