Setting slide duration for ALL slides

Hi all,

I wanted to let you know that I have successfully created a solution for the issue of setting a default timeline length for all slides imported from PowerPoint that is longer than the Storyline default of 5 seconds.

In our project, we wanted to take several of our ILT PowerPoints and deliver them through our LMS. We also wanted to ensure that the user spent a set amount of time on each slide (longer than 5 seconds).

Like Bernd Lehle and others above, we didn't want to spend all the time it would take to develop each slide whether in PowerPoint or in Storyline. Having Visual Basic for Applications experience, I created a macro, which we ran in the PowerPoint presentation. The macro is straightforward. It prompts you to enter a number of seconds. Then, it creates an invisible rectangle on every slide in the presentation with an animation having the duration of the number of seconds you entered.

When you import the presentation into Storyline, the duration of the animated, invisible rectangle on every slide overrides the Storyline default of 5 seconds setting the timeline length to the number of seconds you had entered in the macro.

I've attached the How-to steps and the macro (as text) in a Word file. If you are uncomfortable with VBA, you may need assistance from your IT department.