Export to Powerpoint

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Michael Kubert

August 27, 2011 07:18

Exporting to MS Word using Scroll Office is great. Why not extend this to PowerPoint?

I often come across the point where several distributed team members need to collaboratively create a PowerPoint presentation. Same problem as with Word. Creating slides in Confluence would solve the problem. History would be available, every user could work on each page using the usual Confluence techniques. One could only export the tagged slides so that one could create different versions of the content.

My proposal is that there would be one Confluence page per slide. The template should be configurable as it is in Scroll Office for Word, too.

An additional step would be to offer a slide viewer which would display the slides from the sub-pages as a presentation, add some timing info whatever. But that's not necessary, the pure export to a PowerPoint file would help much.

My impression is that Confluence and Scroll Office are a great collaborative replacement for working with standalone MS Office products. Just add the power of e.g. Gliffy (collaborative Visio), Balsamiq (collaborative mockups) and yWorks Diagrams (Graphs) and you have a very powerful collaborative documentation environment.

What do you think?

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  Tobias Anstett October 20, 2011 14:01

  Hi Michael,

  Collaborative editing of presentations is a nice idea - thank you for sharing it with us.

  I remember several developer meetings in the past where we discussed the idea of exporting PowerPoint from Confluence. Although I really like this kind of feature it was not added to our roadmap because some other products/features just have much more impact on the success of wiki-based documentation.

  Would be nice if we get some more feedback in this discussion to check if we need to adapt our roadmap.

   

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  Grady Drew June 27, 2017 14:44

  Could this be revisited? 

  Or, do you have some sort of work-around that you can suggest for exporting to PowerPoint? 

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  Nils Bier June 27, 2017 15:44

  Hi Grady,

  Thanks for getting in touch.

  Right now we do not have specific plans to work on any PowerPoint Exporter, as we're focusing on other projects and we didn't have this requirement recently.

  Additionally, I'm not sure if Confluence is the right tool to create content for PowerPoint slides. Instead, have you thought about using Powerpoint to create your slides, upload your slidedeck to Confluence and then use the inline comments in attachments to collaborate on the slides?

  Cheers,
  Nils

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  Grady Drew June 27, 2017 16:26

  I'm hoping to single source the PowerPoint slides from Confluence content. 

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  Quick Zhou March 03, 2018 02:40 (Edited March 03, 2018 02:41)

  There is size limitation to the upload files in our company, which makes it is almost impossible to upload a PPT to Confluence. I'm second to Grady, we should have a single source to present others the progress of projects with PPT, and Confluence has all our inputs.

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