#ELHToronto - Storyline Tips, Secrets and Timesavers
Jul 10, 2014
What are your best Storyline Tips, Secrets and Timesavers that you use on a consistent basis? Do you use certain keyboard shortcuts? Is there a neat feature you've found in Storyline to save work time?
Here are a few that have been shared by Tim Slade at the Toronto Community Event to get us started:
Top Ten Storyline Tips, Secrets and Timesavers - Tim Slade @sladetim
Tip 1 - use cue points to get appears to appear when you want them too on a slide.
Tip 2 - Format Painter. Use this to copy the formatting of one item to another item within your slide.
Tip 3 - Swap out pictures, keeps all the triggers, etc that were associated with the image.
Tip 4 - when you insert a radial button you can auto add text to this without adding a text box.
Tip 5 - hide objects on you layers using the timeline.
Tip 6 - Use feedback masters to create masters that you can use on individual layers
Tip 7 - Using button sets so that you can make objects/buttons only be clickable one at a time.
Tip 8 - create custom Colour themes to match your scheme. Check out Tim's site for resource. http://www.tim-slade.com/
Tip 9 - with a long timeline, as you drag timeline back, hit the left arrow and it will snap back to the beginning.
Tip 10 - click and object then click and drag it to duplicate it quickly, CRTL-Enter to open dialogue box, CRTL-G to group objects, ALT-and then number that you see on the ribbon for quick access, CTRL-Shift-Enter for resizing
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Awesome work Tim! You rocked it!
For the individual who asked Nancy how often she saves in Storyline, Rachel Barnum has a fantastic solution for autosaving in Storyline:
http://www.ohthatrachel.com/2014/06/04/autosaving-in-articulate-storyline/
It'll honestly save you a lot of heart ache when you've been working on a project for 12 hours straight and you're on the cusp of crying onto your keyboard.
Great comment Ashley. I just started another discussion thread for Nancy's session and included that question in the list, so when it's done and posted maybe you can post that message there as well!
CRTL-SHIFT when clicking and dragging an object will duplicate the object and keep the duplicate in alignment with the first one.
I'm guessing a nice blogpost is coming up with these awesome resources Nicole? Love you added these to the community site. We'll do that next time as well!
Tracey,Nicole,Dave, Ashley &++++++
Thank-you! for coming to Toronto and sharing more of Storyline it was AWESOME!
Tim showed a Colour Theme guide built in Storyline ( tip #8), his link is to a Video. Is there a download of the actual .story file?
Thanks Again for creating such a great community!
Cheers
S
Oh yes and a time saver.......
Cntrl + F12 previews the slide you are working on ( not the entire project). no need to mouse over and click on the drop down menu under Preview and then select the This Slide option. Less mouse-ing less repetitive strain injuries!
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