Animating bulleted objectives

Aug 22, 2012

Hi all,

I'm working on my first course in Storyline and just finished recording my narration. Yay! However, I can't get my bullets to animate in individually on my objectives slide. I don't typically use much text (especially bulleted text) on my slides, but I like listing the objectives out and having them animate in as I speak. I've read some other posts that say to use cue points, so I added cue points. This did absolutely nothing. Do I need to put each line of text in its own text box? Isn't there a way to get individual lines of text to animate in separately?

Thanks for your help!

7 Replies

David Anderson
Staff

over 11 years ago08/22/12 at 7:28 am (UTC)

Hi Sarah,

You can animate your bullets by first level paragraph and the timeline. Here's how:

Sarah Newman
Author

over 11 years ago08/22/12 at 7:33 am (UTC)

Ohhhhh! I actually had tried both "all at once" and "by first level paragraph," but because the text box line in timeline didn't automatically expand to show that each bullet had its own timeline box/level/whatever, I didn't know how to match them up with cue points. Thanks so much for your help!

David Anderson
Staff

over 11 years ago08/22/12 at 7:41 am (UTC)

No problem! Glad that was what you were looking for.

Leslie B

over 11 years ago08/22/12 at 7:54 am (UTC)

Since we are talking about bullets, I have been trying to figure out a way to format/change bullet size and shape like we could in Articulate. We also used to have the option in Articulate to adjust the line spacing between paragraphs. Any idea how to do any of that in storyline?

Montse
Hero

over 11 years ago08/22/12 at 8:19 am (UTC)

@Leslie - There aren't too many things you can do with the built-in formatting. I've found I get the most options from combining my own graphics with lists like in this example:

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