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Importing Flow Diagrams into Storyline
I think Nathan had some really good reasons why?
What was this created in? Is it an embedded vision or created natively in PPT, is it a smart object? You may need to ungroup further or it could be you are using shapes unsupported by Storyline. Can you share the slide?
This diagram was created in PPT, and I ungrouped it. It imported into Storyline as separate, small pictures. I can't share the proprietary file but thank you all for your help.
Phil has a good point. If you look at the attached files (PPT diagram and same diagram imported into SL project), some of the elements come in as shapes and some come in as images (emf format). To have the best chance of your diagram coming into SL as shapes, makes sure to use shapes shared between SL and PPT when making the diagram. PPT has a shape category labeled Flowchart. Don't use those. Stick with the Basic Shapes category, and make those work. You can see that many of the shapes have similarities between the categories, but the Flowchart shapes will not import into SL as native shapes, but as images.
In the attached PPT file, I converted some of the flowchart shapes to the equivalent basic shapes. Those are the ones that imported into the SL project as shapes. The remainder came in as emf images. You can change some others to see the effect.
Keep this in mind when creating your flowchart, and you'll have a better chance at a clean and editable import.
Thank you for taking the time to help me. The shapes may be flowchart diagram images created by the SME.
