In Storyline can you globally change the font in Notes tabs only?

Jun 04, 2012

Andrew Sellon
By Andrew Sellon

Hi!  Apologies if this is answered elsewhere in the forum, but I couldn't find it and was spending too much time looking.  In Storyline, is it possible to globally change the font in all my slides' Notes tab without changing what's on the body of the slides themselves?  I imported a PPT file and based on forum tutorials, I knew my fonts might come in a bit wonky--which they did.  I'm just hoping there's a quick an easy way of cleaning them up rather than going to each Notes tab of each slide individually for each of my three modules.

Does creating a Theme include the ability to specify the font/sizing for the Notes tab?  I didn't see the Notes tab mentioned in the Theme instructions, but maybe I missed that.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Lauren Connelly
3 months ago02/20/24 at 2:31 pm (UTC)

Hello all!

Good news! In Storyline 360 (Build 3.85.31840.0), you can now instantly update the formatting of all slide notes in your project.

From here, all you need to do is update Storyline 360 in your Articulate 360 desktop app!

If you run into any issues, please don't hesitate to reach out to our Support team in a support case. 

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Supercaster Training
over 4 years ago09/04/19 at 7:32 pm (UTC)

It remains INSANE that this feature has not been added. And what a quintessential Articulate support thread -- people requesting a feature repeatedly over a period of *seven years*, told over and over that it's been added as a feature request, with nothing ever changing.

This is hell on my efficiency as a developer and a great example of Articulate not having enough competition.

Louise Smith
almost 4 years ago05/19/20 at 10:03 am (UTC)

Hi All,

Does anyone know if this been added as a feature yet? 

I am currently editing a storyline file where one scene has over 50 slides alone. This is a very frustrating and time consuming task that needs to be addressed.

I also submitted a request so that when you are pasting objects from another slide it does not copy the length of the timeline. Again another time consuming task that would benefit a lot of people greatly if this was addressed.

Susan Klusarits
over 2 years ago08/25/21 at 3:08 pm (UTC)

Articulate,

Please do keep on your roadmap as it is an important feature and would be a huge timesaver!

Best regards,
Susan Klusarits, M.Ed
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Pierre Sosa
over 2 years ago10/04/21 at 3:51 pm (UTC)

I'm sad to hear that it hasn't made it to the roadmap yet, as I feel that this has been a problem for so long. As happy as I am to have text styles, it felt like a  premature release in that this feature wasn't also available to the notes tab. 360-photos were integrated; was there a larger push for that than for global notes formatting? As much as I want .svg import or a "loop animation" trigger or focus-order-to-include-grouped-objects, I understand that this functionality affects every Storyline user. Is it really just a matter of more upvoting? The lack of progress on this front concerns me that Articulate is out of touch when it comes to prioritizing users' needs.

I love this product, and appreciate the team working on it. It takes time and is not simple. But how do we *actually* impress that this needs prioritization?

Lauren Connelly
over 2 years ago10/05/21 at 1:08 pm (UTC)

Hello Pierre!

I appreciate you taking the time to share how this feature would be impactful for you. To clarify, it's not a matter of upvoting when adding features to our roadmap. Of course, customer impact is a significant factor, but we also evaluate feature requests alongside a queue of bug fixes, new features already on the roadmap, and other projects. If a new feature makes it onto the roadmap, our team designs, develops, and tests it. 

I'm sharing updated comments with my team to determine if the priority has changed. I'll circle back with you when I have more information.

Pierre Sosa
over 1 year ago01/25/23 at 4:22 pm (UTC)

And again...

This time is particularly fun as it relates to modernizing a course. I have a course that used a custom-colorized Classic Player with white text in the notes. Now I am updating to the modern player, am fine using the "light" modern player, but the notes text color has to be manually changed! Also, it is not uniform across all of the slides. Some slides, the notes are black. Some slides, the notes are white. It seems like there might be some color change technique applied on some notes, but not on other notes, and now there is no uniform performance.

So I'm going to go through every slide and manually update the color. I wish I could at least use right-click>apply style. Right-click>paste>apply destination theme would be a great option if I could control the destination theme, rather than it just defaulting to the formatting of the first character even after that character was deleted. I'm going to try to speed this process up by undocking and respositioning my windows in such a way that the font color control is not a thousand pixels away.

Please prioritize this!

Thanks,

P

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