How to Export Storyline 360 project to PowerPoint?

Hi  Ben & Brett,

Thanks for looking through this thread.  I'm glad you could at least get the PDF extract.  I'm on Office 365 so can no longer export Storyline to Word as it's trying to save as a .doc instead of .docx file which is no longer supported.  (which is a different conversation thread with Articulate).  So this work around doesn't work for me any longer.  I'm no exporting everything as a translation file and then having to clean up the exported document in order to get something remotely useable for course reviews.  Having a better export function would be a game changer for us - and seems to be something Articulate needs to invest in if it wants to stay in the authoring game, as there are other tools out that provide this. 

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?

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...)

We already have our Storyline course built (we never started with a PPT file) and I'm now being asked to provide a PPT file to one of the other departments so they can work with it for their purposes.

So, I'm putting my hand up for the ability to publish to either PPT (preferred) or to PDF. Having a flattened image (when published to Word) is useless for our purposes. We're more than happy to lose the interactive bits and the branching, etc. All we want are editable pages (eg. change text and move images) for each slide.

If we could publish or print the course to PDF, we could then easily convert it to PPT from within Acrobat Pro.

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?

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.

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

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.