How to Export Storyline 360 project to PowerPoint?

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.

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. 

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!

Storyline has a PowerPoint import feature. PowerPoint does not have a Storyline import feature. They are two different tools with different features that don't translate.

If you know you need a PowerPoint version of what you build in Storyline, I'd start with PPT and then import that into Storyline to build the interactive elements.

I pulled all of the different tips together in this blog post. 

https://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/convert-storyline-courses-powerpoint/

Hello! 

Adding my experience here also. In my institution we like to offer a print out of our courses (similar to a handout). It would be great to have the option to transfer content from storyline to PPT.

We currently publish the content to word, clean it up, and then convert it to a PDF. However, there is a lot to clean up in the word version and it is harder to work on design in a word document than it is in a PPT. 

I hope there is a way to do it soon!

thanks!

Vero 

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.

Well said Glen! We get so many requests for just the slide content that it should be a feature! Having to take screenshots to paste into PowerPoint is crazy. You already have an import from PPT, why not create the reverse?

June

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!

Having a PowerPoint export feature is also something that our team could use as well.

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?