Looking to use your ideas, sketches and diagrams from MS Whiteboard outside the app? Want to share a board as an image? Find out here how to export from Microsoft Whiteboard as HTML or save as a PNG image.
First, Budding Meals
You can eat the petals and blooms, of course, yellow, delicate and a tad astringent.
Typically, we do not take things that far, however, and harvest broccoli’s flowers when they are still little green buds arranged as inflorescences atop its stems.
Now, blooming or not, here’s how to harvest entire whiteboards:
How to Save in and Export from Microsoft Whiteboard: PNG, HTML and More
Time needed: 2 minutes
To save a whiteboard from Microsoft Whiteboard as an image or export a whiteboard’s content as HTML:
- Open the whiteboard you want to export.
- Click the Settings menu gear icon (⚙︎).
Mobile: On a mobile device, tap the three dots menu icon instead.
- Select Export in the menu that has appeared.
- Click Image under Quick export to export the whiteboard as an image file.
The image format: MS Whiteboard will save whiteboards as displayed in the PNG image format.
As HTML: To export all content for the whiteboard in raw form, select Zip (HTML+JSON) instead; this lets you open the exported whiteboard in a browser locally and import the data to other programs. - For “Image”: Choose between Standard resolution and High resolution and click Export.
The difference: High resolution has around 9 times the data as standard resolution, though for small whiteboards there is no difference.
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How to Save in and Export from Microsoft Whiteboard: FAQ
Can I export to HTML on a mobile device?
Yes.
While the MS Whiteboard apps for iOS and Android will only save boards as PNG images, you can open MS Whiteboard in a mobile browser and export as HTML from there.
What files does exporting to HTML produce?
If you export a whiteboard to HTML+JSON, you get precisely that:
- a HTML file with the HTML, CSS code and images (inline in the HTML file) that render as the whiteboard in a browser and
- a JSON file with comments to the whiteboard
Can I import back into MS Whiteboard?
No.
You can insert an exported image as image, of course; the HTML will open and display in a browser but not include any editing (e.g., to copy back into another whiteboard).
(Tested with Microsoft Whiteboard 24.10715–25.11203; first published July 2024, last updated December 2025)