Can you create global paragraph styles or style sheets?

Hi Andrew:

This sounds like you want to make Master Slides...

Try it:

1. Open a new project

2. Click View from the menu bar

3. Click Slide Master

4. Select the Large slide to apply Global default styles to all slides

5. Modify those things you want

6. Click a smaller slide to apply specific slide styling, add images, etc...

7. Click the Master Slide > Close Master Slide View button

8. To use a Layout, right click the Slide thumbnail to the left and select Layout

Optionally, you can save this as a story template for reuse.

This will achieve what you want.

Best Regards,

Dennis Hall

Genius!

Dennis, take the rest of the day off.

There are many cases when imported PowerPoint slides prevent Master Slides from doing their job because those imported slides use manually created text boxes or some other nastiness that aren't touched by Master slides. In those cases (for me, more often than not), having style sheets would save me tons of time.

Hi Jay!

Agreed Jay -- I want InDesign functionality where I can saveHeader styles, paragraph styles, character styles to be applied as needed and where they are needed. -- This is pain and creates far too much work.

Hi Michele,

I'm not incredibly familiar with the InDesign functionality you've mentioned, but if you'd like to share your thoughts with our team directly you can do so here as well. 

Not just style sheets - cascading style sheets. I am relatively new with Storyline, and I already see the lack of defining paragraph and text styles as a weak point here. If I am 90 completed with a project and someone decides they want to change the look and text of the course, how do I change them all at once. With a cascading style sheet, I make the change in one spot, and it cascades down to all of the slides using the style. Same with spacing, leading, etcetera. I am working on a project now that was "stitched together" with a lot of slides and masters from other courses and templates. There is no way to apply a text or paragraph style to get everything to look the same. This just seems like such a missing tool for those of us that are professional IDs and technical writers.

Sonny

Thanks Sonny - as  a non-designer myself, I haven't always had a full grasp on this need and feature, but that explanation really helped! I know it's something a few folks have shared their thoughts on here in ELH, but also make sure to send it along as a feature request too! Those go directly to our Product team and our customers truly drive our product roadmap! 

Does anyone know if this has been added as a feature since then? Xxx

Thanks for checking in, Jo!

No update as of yet, but we'd love to hear more about how this feature could help you. Feel free to add your details through a Feature Request or share them in this discussion!