animated bullet points?

You can!

Create your text box with the bullet points. 

On the Animations tab, add an entrance animation, and select the "by 1st level paragraph" option.

Then in the timeline, a small arrow appears next to the text box's name.  Click the arrow to expand the text box in the timeline, where you will have one object for each 1st level paragraph.  You can then time those individually.

Great tip, Diane.

Chance, here's a tutorial that shows just what Diane recommended:

This is great, thanks!

Thank you., this is great

This is really helpful. One request though, if I add a soft return (shift+enter) in the middle of text after a bullet, I would expect it to be considered part of the same bullet - currently it does not do this. It considers the text after the soft return to be a new paragraph. By definition a soft return is not supposed to indicate a new paragraph. However, what is demonstrated in the video helps work around this.

Here is a story file that demonstrates what I mean...

Hey Will - that's actually a good point (no pun intended). While it's easy enough to set the timing of the soft returns so they sync as one, I totally see where following a standard soft return would make sense.

So even though we've identified text improvements as a top priority, I haven't seen a lot of requests around soft returns. Would you mind submitting that request so we have it on our list?

Thanks for giving me the link David  - I have submitted the request.

Thanks, Will!

How can you animate bullets in Presenter?

Any idea why nothing is showing in Preview mode for my first level paragraph bullet-point animations? I have done exactly as outlined above, but nothing is showing up from the set of bullets?

What a great post. Thanks, Diane & David. Wouldn't it be nice if the good people at Adobe learned this feature from the good people at Articulate?

This was a lifesaver. It's the little buried treasures that make for a more engaging and robust user experience. Thanks for showing me where that was hiding!

Love when these old threads are still assisting users Paul. Thanks for popping in to share :)

Two years later this old thread is still helpful so thank you! Had no idea you could do this after years of use. Doh! :)

Glad to hear it Teresa! Thanks for chiming in to share.

Welcome to E-Learning Heroes by the way :)

I no longer see the "by 1st level paragraph" option. Has this been removed? Can animated bullets still be achieved without multiple text boxes?

Hi Heather,

It has not been removed. It's hard to see from your image, but if you scroll down a little further, you should see it:

Let us know if you need any further help.

Odd.  My Effect Options end after "From Bottom-Right." I get these same options if I select the entire text box, or just the bulleted list items. I have the most recent version of Storyline. Is there something I'm missing?

I'd be happy to take a look, Heather.

Please share your project file, even the single slide, publicly here or send it to me privately by uploading it here.