Power Point import

Hi MRogers1!

Welcome to Articulate 360!

When you import a PowerPoint presentation into Storyline, it brings in your existing slides, layouts, and formatting, but it won’t automatically apply a new Content Library 360 theme (like Vigor) to those imported slides. To use a theme such as Vigor, you’d need to apply its layouts and design elements manually after importing.

However, I do see the value of being able to convert the theme automatically upon import, so I’ve submitted a feature request to our Product team so that they can consider adding that in a future update.

We welcome your ideas, and you can always submit your feature requests to our developers directly!

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MRogers1​: As I understand it, you want to import PPT slides and have them automatically transfer to another look, such as the Vigor theme. I don't know of any way to do that.

When you import slides from a PPT, from another Storyline project, or from the Content library, Storyline automatically imports the corresponding Slide Master(s). 

When you have more than one Slide Master in a file, you can apply any layout from any Slide Master to any slide.

However, unless the slide has the same elements as the applied layout, you'll still have to make manual adjustments. 

For example, if the slide has a Title placeholder and a Content placeholder, it's easy to apply another layout that also has those elements. But if there's not a 1-to-1 match, weird things can happen, and it could be a lot of work to fix the slide.  

In other words, chances are you will need to make manual adjustments.

I think the easiest way to get what you want is to redo the Slide Masters in the PPT before you import the slides. I'd also then delete the original Slide Master from the Storyline line to avoid confusion when you're applying layouts. 

Another option would be to edit the existing Slide Master in Storyline so it looks like what you want, and so it includes the same basic layouts as your PPT. Then import the PPT slides, and apply the layouts with the desired design.

Here's more info about Slide Masters: Storyline 360: Using Slide Masters | Articulate - Community

Also note that Feedback Masters are used for the layout of layers: Storyline 360: Using Feedback Masters | Articulate - Community 

I love the advice ChristaNovel637​ gave you. It's good. I will add to this some issues I have seen. I normally will start a new presentation. Then make sure my slide size is the same as my PPT, if not you can go crazy reformatting everything. Once they are the same and any other changes are made to slide formatting, I do the import. Most of the time it slides right in. 

Hope this helps make your life a little easier. 

I'm going to say a giant, "yes, but..." See this screenshot for how you import PPs:

That said, at that point you're simply developing without designing. Simply adding clickable areas and next buttons doesn't lead to learning. I always recommend building directly in Storyline after creating a design that incorporates skill building activities. Source documents like PPs are usually focused on information transfer rather than practice activities and skill building.