Animation - Sequence by Paragraph Not Available/Working

Nov 06, 2018

Good morning.  I am trying to perform simple animations for text to appear by paragraph to coincide with the related audio.  When I select an entrance (fade) for the text box, the option to animate by paragraph is not available for selection.  I try to select but it won't change.

This appears to be the case for all slides in the deck.  I just created a new text box from scratch and the same issue exists.  Any ideas?

Notes:  The file is saved locally to rule out potential issue; the text box is not grouped with anything else.  The items are bulleted and I did use the "enter" key for each new bullet.  I tried, however, changing to non-bulleted text but no success.  I have the most recent version of Storyline 3.

Thank you for any guidance...

12 Replies
Wade France

Hi Ashley - thank you for your follow-up. 

The course file is fairly large (79mb) so I have just extracted a few slides to highlight where I am finding the issue. Please see my attachment for an extract containing a few of the slide examples. Beginning on slide 3, I have text with bullets where I am unable to animate by each section as desired.

Thank you for your willingness to take a look and help.

Wade France

Leslie,

Thank you sooo  much for taking the time to look at this...  Your Peek video totally helped me realize the user error on my part.  I am seeing what you highlighted.  I did not notice the slight blue shading when selecting and changing between the paragraph grouping vs. all at once.  I was looking at the brackets around all at once and assumed that was denoting the selection.  Those brackets are part of the image, however - totally my fault!  I also did not pick up on the small arrow to get to the granular detail of each bullet item.  I was looking for that expanded view and forgot/didn't realize I would have to expand to see the sub-items.

In short, all is well.  I can't thank you enough for the help you provided.  I am sorry I did not catch this earlier on my own, but sure do appreciate the help!

Helene Caura

Hi I have a similar issue here, My text box does contain several sections with Enter in between, but the option to select by object or paragraph is not available (please see screencapture attached). I use this animation by paragraph in several other slides and it always works well... Mystery!