Publishing to Word Doc doesn't work in Storyline 360

Glad to hear it's working now, Yolanda. I appreciate the update.

Hi, I am having the same problem. Tried all the methods in this thread, but still doesn't work. Any other solutions? Thanks for the help!

Never mind. Resolved. Thanks!

Hi Jay,

I'm glad to hear that the solution worked for you as well.

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Just wanted to let you know I have a Storyline file from 2019 an I had to give a SME a Word version today and it would only publish the first slide.  I followed your instructions and I opened a new storyline file and imported, but then I still had to rebuild the Glossary and add all the Resources back in as they did not import over.  It took so much extra time, but it did work.  The old file itself works fine publishes to LMS and to Review just won't publish to Word.  Very time consuming if I will ever have to do this with older versions of my storyline files. 

For our longstanding review process people insist on Word documents that they can do track changes and comments in.  A screenshot of the slide while nice, doesn't cut it for spell check or the like.

Poking around, we discovered that the closest thing to an editable document coming out of Storyline is the Translation document: File menu/Translation/Export to Word.  It's very ugly if you just want a nice clean version of the text but it's the best we could find.

So I built this macro... not sure if it'll come over since macros look a lot like viruses but we'll give it a try.  The purpose is to take that Translation document with all its columns and lists of every state of every variable and simplify it down to just the slide screenshot and the text. I'm kind of proud of it if anyone wants to try.

And would LOVE to have articulate come up with a solution that completely renders this obsolete.

Thanks Luke, I have only worked with macros a long time ago in excel lol!  I see the .docm document and the .docx document are those all I need.  I am good for now as I did the import solution, but if I have to do it again I will check this out.

Hello everyone! I don't know if this has been fixed, but I'm still having an issue with Storyline and Parallels. Everything is current version.

Hi Jacob,

Thanks for reaching out and sharing that you're experiencing an issue as well.

There are a lot of conversations happening here, so I'd like to confirm what you see since you mention Storyline and Parallels.

• Are you getting an error when publishing to Word?
• Do you have Word installed in your Parallels/Windows environment?

Thanks for the additional information, Jacob.

Yes. To Publish to Word, you will need to have Word installed. One of these versions:

• Microsoft Office 365 (desktop apps only)
• The latest perpetual version of Microsoft Word (32-bit or 64-bit)

You can find all of the details here:

Compatibility and Integrations