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Importing Flow Diagrams into Storyline
It also depends upon what kind of diagram you're using.
SmartArt diagrams are complicated. For example, if you copy one into Adobe Illustrator to edit the graphic elements you will see countless layers of grouped objects and clipped selections. SmartArt will just either paste into SL as a vector or import as a single image. If you ungroup the SmartArt before saving the PPT and then import it into SL, it will come in as a group of smaller images, but the blocks will still not be editable since they are images.
If you just draw a flow diagram out of shapes and text on a PPT slide, copying that (as a unit) and pasting it into SL will also result in a vector SVG. If you save the PPT slide with the diagram, you can import it into SL (File > Import). This will import the diagram into SL as a collection of shapes on your timeline, as you requested. Once imported, you could copy and paste the slide objects onto other slides or into another SL project as needed.
Thank you, Nathan. I would like these to import as shapes, not pictures so I can edit the text.
Import should work then. You will likely need to save any PPT diagram as a single slide and then import that single PPT slide into SL to get it to do what you want. Again, this is assuming you're not using SmartArt.
Hi Nathan. Thank you. The diagram imported in as separate pictures.