Exporting Your Work
Nothing you make in Scholarly is trapped here. A finished report can become a Word document your colleagues redline, a slide deck can land in PowerPoint before a client meeting, and a set of meeting notes can go into Google Docs for the follow-up email.
The control is Export, in the header of whatever you are looking at, on some items it sits inside the header's three-dot menu. Open it and you see only the formats that make sense for that kind of work, so the menu is also the fastest way to answer "can I get this as a Word file?"
What each kind of work can become
| What you made | Export offers |
|---|---|
| Page | PowerPoint (.pptx), Word (.docx) |
| Generated documents: study guide, worksheet, story book, report, SOP, timeline, cheat sheet, outline, rubric, lesson plan, case study, flowchart, spreadsheet | PowerPoint (.pptx), Word (.docx) |
| Research report | PowerPoint (.pptx), Word (.docx) |
| Research sources (the bibliography) | Word (.docx) |
| Slides | PowerPoint (.pptx), Word (.docx) |
| Video lecture | PowerPoint (.pptx), and an export pack zip, video, slides, script, and captions together |
| Podcast | PowerPoint (.pptx) |
| Infographic | PowerPoint (.pptx) |
| Recording (AI Meeting Notes) | Word (.docx) |
| Transcript | Word (.docx) |
Wherever Word (.docx) appears you can also save to Google Docs, and wherever PowerPoint (.pptx) appears you can also save to Google Slides. See below.
Video lecture export packs
A finished video lecture offers one more thing: an Export pack. It is a single zip with everything the lecture produced, so you can hand the whole thing to a client, a colleague, or an LMS in one file:
- The video itself
- The slide deck built from the same scenes
- The narration script, broken up by chapter
- Captions in both
.vttand.srt, so whatever platform you upload to accepts one of them - A short README listing the sources the lecture was built from
The button sits in the lecture header and again beside the slide deck. Only the lecture's owner can build a pack, and it needs a paid plan, the same gate as any other editable export.
Three things the format table deliberately does not cover:
- Flashcard decks and quizzes are not part of it. They have their own export path, an Anki
.apkgdeck, a PDF, or Print (with answers, or as a questions-only worksheet). See Exporting Flashcards. - Only documents Scholarly generated convert. A PDF you uploaded is a source, not an artefact, so it has no Word or PowerPoint conversion. It stays exactly the file you uploaded, and you can download the original file again with a paid plan.
- There is no Excel export. A spreadsheet is something you create, Scholarly builds a real, editable workbook as an artefact in its own right. See AI Spreadsheets.
Saving to Google Docs and Google Slides
If you have connected Google Drive, the Export menu gains two more entries:
- Save to Google Docs: offered everywhere Word is offered.
- Save to Google Slides: offered everywhere PowerPoint is offered.
Pick one and Scholarly creates the document in your Drive and hands you the link.
Without a connection, the menu shows Connect Google Drive in place of those options. Connecting takes a moment and you only do it once, see Connections.
Two things worth knowing about a Google save:
- It is a separate copy. The new Doc or Slides file lives in your Drive and evolves on its own. Editing it does not change the Scholarly original, and regenerating the Scholarly original does not update the copy.
- Your original's sharing is untouched. Exporting never publishes anything, never changes who can open the Scholarly item, and never turns a private item public. The Drive copy takes its permissions from your Drive, like any other file you create there.
What survives the export
- Text-based exports contain editable text. Word and Google Docs use extracted or authored text. PowerPoint and Google Slides use editable text boxes for sections without a rendered visual. Formatting may differ from the original PDF; these exports do not turn rendered pages into editable layouts.
- Rendered visuals remain images. For generated PDF pages and visual slides from decks, videos, podcasts, or infographics, PowerPoint and Google Slides place the rendered visual as an image. Any text within it is part of that image, not an editable text box or shape.
- A page's PDF export keeps its own page setup. The page size, orientation, and fonts you chose on the page are the ones the PDF uses, so a landscape page stays landscape.
- Research reports keep their citation style options. The style you selected for the report is the style the exported document carries.
Plans
Editable exports, Word, PowerPoint, Google Docs, and Google Slides, need a paid plan.
On Free, those options are still visible so you can see what they do. Choosing one opens your plan options rather than failing with an error, and nothing about your work is lost while you decide.
Downloads and printing, PDF, MP3, and MP4, including a file you uploaded yourself, need a paid plan too. On Free, choosing download or print opens a preview with a view link to share and your plan options. Where offered, you can email yourself a return link to the item and come back later. View-link sharing stays free on every plan, so if all you need is to hand someone a read-only copy, you never have to upgrade to do it. See Plans and Limits.
On a phone
Export works the same way on a phone, but the menu opens as a bottom sheet from the edge of the screen instead of a dropdown. Tap the format you want and the file downloads or saves exactly as it does on a computer. See Scholarly on Mobile.
If an export doesn't work
It failed once and the work is fine. Most export failures are momentary. Open Export and choose the same format again, a second attempt usually clears it.
It asks you to connect Google Drive, but you already did. Google connections expire or get revoked from the Google side. Reconnect the account from Connections and the Save to Google Docs and Save to Google Slides options come back. See Connections.
The format you want isn't listed. The menu only ever shows formats that exist for that kind of work, a missing row is the answer, not a bug. Check the table above: a podcast offers PowerPoint but not Word, a transcript offers Word but not PowerPoint, and an uploaded PDF offers neither.
If a format that the table says should be there is genuinely missing, tell us, see Feedback and Bug Reports.
Related
- Exporting Flashcards, Anki, PDF, and print for decks and quizzes.
- Connections, connect or reconnect Google Drive for Docs and Slides saving.
- Sharing and Collaboration, when a link is a better answer than a file.
- Plans and Limits, which exports need a paid plan.
- AI Spreadsheets, how to get a workbook, since there is no Excel export.