Bullet color insists on white!
May 25, 2012
I have a weird bullet issue in storyline. It seems the last bullet in a list of items wants to turn white regardless of what color the font is! It happens with regular 'circle' bullets as well as with alphabet bullets. Anyone else have this happen? Do you have a workaround for what seems to be a bug (either on my machine or in storyline). I can't seem to fix it, or figure out why/when it happens (it's not consistent). Here are screenshots of two examples of this.
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Hi Gordon, I find it depends on which way you highlight that line. I cannot remember which way I fixed it, either highlight from the left or the right and it fixes it. Hope this gets fixed soon
You are a genius Phil! If i highlight from left to right and then select the font color it fixes it. Thanks again.
I gotta say -- that is pretty strange -- nice to know the fix tho!
I am having the same problem, but when I highlight from left to right and then choose the font color, my bullet color does not change. Here is what mine looks like. Please help!
Hi Katie,
Are you able to share the .STORY file where this is happening, or reproduce it in a new file? I'd be happy to take a look.
In the meantime, you could also try inserting a symbol or shape in place of the bullet and use the formatting colors to match your text.
Thanks!
Christine
Hi Katie,
I did a Screenr on bullet color here:
In it I was actually discussing making the bullets a different color from the text, but you could apply the same theory in reverse.
Also have one here on (annoying) bullet sizes:
...for what it's worth!
Hello all,
I am having this same issue and it is very frustrating. Highlighting left to right does not work. Has there been a solution to this problem since April?
Thanks!
I did just discover something...
This seems to select an invisible character (?) that is controlling the bullet color. You can then change the font color and the bullet symbol will also change.
Hi Julia!
Sorry to hear you're running into this issue. However, I did want to stop by and thank you for sharing that method. I'm sure others will appreciate it as well :)
Have a great day!
Julia: And then say "Three Our Fathers" and tap your left kneecap three times." We-heird, but you know what, Julia. It totally worked. Thank you so much.
Gordon: I have had this happen a lot and it is so frustrating! Sometimes I just remove the bullet and then re-select and re-add the bullet - sometimes it works, sometimes not.
Rebecca: I have this issue a lot as well with the different sizes! Especially after importing languages into a file. Grrr.
Julia: I will try that method, while it seems odd, it makes odd sense to me! (and a few hokey pokey turns thrown in as well).
Hi All,
Julia, tx for the tip. It's actually very similar to the one in my video on sizing bullets here, except I used the mouse and you're using the keyboard. And, I should have realized it could also be used on color...good for you!
This is actually based on an "old" Microsoft Word trick that I used to teach when I did F-2-F classes. Take a look at this Microsoft Word screen shot to see what's happening. Here, I used the mouse to highlight the space right after the word text. Using Shift+right arrow key does the same thing.
At the top of the screenshot, notice the highlight at the end of the "line". That's what you do when you use the right arrow key in that space (or what I showed with the mouse in my Screenr). Compare that with the same bulleted list at the bottom of the screen shot, where I turned show/hide on. Note that ONLY the paragraph mark was highlighted, which is why ONLY the bullet color changed.
The same thing seems to be working in Storyline, only the "highlight" doesn't show up, so it feels we-heird and magical when it works. But like most magical things, there's actually a bit of deception and sleight of hand going on.
Julia:
I just tried your bullet trick and it worked! Thank you so much!
Daniel:
Saying the Our Fathers and tapping my knee right now!
Hi Philip! Thanks for the laugh and glad that this solution worked for you as well. Thanks for sharing
Oh wow, I just realized this post had helped some people. For some reason, I was unsubscribed and didn't see anyone's replies. So sorry, but thank you. So very glad I could help a tad.
Happy Friday to you Julia
LOL, thanks Leslie. And to you!
This is still an issue in Storyline 2...and quite an annoying issue. Please fix Articulate.
Hello John,
Sorry you have experienced this issue. I was not able to see this in Storyline 2. Do you have a file you could share? or at least the slide that you are seeing this issue?
Ah...just fixed it. You can select 'Bullets and Numbering' from the Bullet Drop down and that lets you change the actual bullet colour (color).
Emily,
Thanks for the response.The behaviour is still as initially described in this thread but you can colour the bullets using the Bullet edit dialog. Still not obvious that you have to do this.
John
Hello John!
You can use the drop down in the bullets and numbering to change only the bullet color, and not the text. However when you select the text and change the color, the bullets will change along with it. I have not seen the issue with the bottom bullet being a different color than the rest in Storyline 2.
If you do come across this again, you could share your file for us to take a look.
Julia, you just saved me! I'd tried EVERYTHING else, but your shift/right arrow trick did it! THANK YOU!
Glad this thread was able to assist you as well Beth :)
This is still an issue - especially when copying text from another file into Storyline 2. It would be very nice to see this bug resolved.