The bad news is that yes, you'll need to modify each state. The good news is, that there may be a way to save some time.
You won't need to manually select and adjust each state.
What I recommend is adjusting the first state to the size that you'd like. After doing so, select the text box and click on the Home tab. From here, double-click on the Format Painter.
If you're in Edit States mode, you can quickly move through each state and apply the changes to each text box.
I realize that'll still be time consuming with so many states - I don't think I've ever seen quite that many :) - but I'm hoping that will help.
Also, I'd love to hear of other suggestions for this!
If there are multiple text sizes on your states or other changes, then follow Christine's suggestion. However, if all of the text is the same size and all that is changing is the words, then you can do something a bit faster...
1. Create a new object with the characteristics of the original object but with the new text size (no states needed on this object)
2. Use the format paint tool to copy the format of the new object to the existing 90 state object
This should change all 90 states to the initial state of the new object.
Jesse's tip seemed promissing, but unfortunately it didn't work. Only the initial state of my existing object changed.
I'll go with the 180 click solution of christine.. that is doable. I'll probably make my object in three sizes (small, medium and large) so I can then use the objects in different sizes on a lot of different slides.
@Christine,
My object should actually have 120 states, but there is a limit of 100 states on one object, so I had to break the object into two object, with triggers to hide the first and show the next to make it work. (look at one of my other recent posts)
Looks like you've already visited this post, but just to recap, you'll want to edit the Normal state of the object so the size change can be carried over to the object's other states. Here's a quick recording for your reference:
If this isn't the feature that you need, feel free to detail your requirements through a feature request so we can know more about them.
I have checkboxes that changed the hover state to a random size after resizing the normal state. I cannot get it to change to the same size by putting in the exact width in the checkbox tab on a slide. I have around 25 checkboxes on multiple slides that have triggers and other interactions, so no use in copy + pasting anything. It takes forever to go into every single one of them to change the size one by one. I tried making them smaller first to sort of reset the checkbox size, but the states remained the same odd sizes.
I tested your project and found that if I copied and pasted a checkbox that had the unusual sizing issue in its Hover state, the issue carried over after I changed the text in the box.
However, if I copied and pasted from a checkbox that had the correct hover state sizing, this resulted in the text box displaying properly after the text was changed.
I was able to partially fix the issue by creating a new project file, importing the affected slide to the new project file, and then changing the slide size to 1500 x 800. I've attached the fixed file for your reference. Moving forward, try copying and pasting only the text boxes that display correctly to prevent the issue from happening to other text boxes if you are using the copy-paste method when adding checkboxes.
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Hi Michel,
The bad news is that yes, you'll need to modify each state. The good news is, that there may be a way to save some time.
You won't need to manually select and adjust each state.
What I recommend is adjusting the first state to the size that you'd like. After doing so, select the text box and click on the Home tab. From here, double-click on the Format Painter.
If you're in Edit States mode, you can quickly move through each state and apply the changes to each text box.
I realize that'll still be time consuming with so many states - I don't think I've ever seen quite that many :) - but I'm hoping that will help.
Also, I'd love to hear of other suggestions for this!
Let us know how it goes!
Christine
Michel,
If there are multiple text sizes on your states or other changes, then follow Christine's suggestion. However, if all of the text is the same size and all that is changing is the words, then you can do something a bit faster...
1. Create a new object with the characteristics of the original object but with the new text size (no states needed on this object)
2. Use the format paint tool to copy the format of the new object to the existing 90 state object
This should change all 90 states to the initial state of the new object.
Cheers,
Jesse
Awesome tip!
Thanks, Jesse :)
Thank you both.
Jesse's tip seemed promissing, but unfortunately it didn't work. Only the initial state of my existing object changed.
I'll go with the 180 click solution of christine.. that is doable. I'll probably make my object in three sizes (small, medium and large) so I can then use the objects in different sizes on a lot of different slides.
@Christine,
My object should actually have 120 states, but there is a limit of 100 states on one object, so I had to break the object into two object, with triggers to hide the first and show the next to make it work. (look at one of my other recent posts)
is there a fast way to copy paste the size of one state to the other states? I thought the format painter would be able to do that, but it didn't.
Hello Marieken,
Looks like you've already visited this post, but just to recap, you'll want to edit the Normal state of the object so the size change can be carried over to the object's other states. Here's a quick recording for your reference:
If this isn't the feature that you need, feel free to detail your requirements through a feature request so we can know more about them.
I have checkboxes that changed the hover state to a random size after resizing the normal state. I cannot get it to change to the same size by putting in the exact width in the checkbox tab on a slide. I have around 25 checkboxes on multiple slides that have triggers and other interactions, so no use in copy + pasting anything. It takes forever to go into every single one of them to change the size one by one. I tried making them smaller first to sort of reset the checkbox size, but the states remained the same odd sizes.
Hello Antje,
Sorry to hear that you ran into this snag.
I tested your project and found that if I copied and pasted a checkbox that had the unusual sizing issue in its Hover state, the issue carried over after I changed the text in the box.
However, if I copied and pasted from a checkbox that had the correct hover state sizing, this resulted in the text box displaying properly after the text was changed.
I was able to partially fix the issue by creating a new project file, importing the affected slide to the new project file, and then changing the slide size to 1500 x 800. I've attached the fixed file for your reference. Moving forward, try copying and pasting only the text boxes that display correctly to prevent the issue from happening to other text boxes if you are using the copy-paste method when adding checkboxes.
Hope this helps!