Does anyone know how to customize your heading styles on Storyline 360? I want my headings to be a certain font size and would rather not edit each one after adding heading styles.
Hi Lauren.... Are heading styles set at the slide master level or at the project level? Based on the article you shared above, it looks like this is at the project level, since it mentions only setting the styles when on a content slide; it doesn't mention anything about setting styles in the master slides.
However, when you import slides, the heading styles differ at the slide master level. I imported two slides from our team slides, and the imported heading styles are incorrect. As you can see in the attached recording, the first master (the original one for this project) has Arial 20 pt. bold set for the H1 (slide title), but the second master (imported with the two slides) has Arial 24 pt. no bold. No attempts to reset the second master's style work to pick up the first master's style settings, but if the styles are set at the project level, they should apply to all masters and slides when you reset the style.
If you think that this isn't working as expected (e.g., that the heading styles should apply across the project), I can create a bug report.
Heading Styles can be set at the project level or slide master level. When importing slides, the heading style from the current project are prioritzed over the heading styles set in the imported project.
The heading style can be different in each Slide Master layout too. Here's a 2-minute tutorial on setting the Heading style when using multiple Slide Master layouts.
Thank you for your response and the tutorial. Unfortunately, the tutorial doesn't really address my question.
What do you mean by "prioritized"? Shouldn't that mean that the heading style from the current project should be applied to imported slides, not that they should retain the styles from before? If yes, that's not the case.
Let's say there are two projects, A and B. Project A is the main project, and Project B is the imported project. Project B is imported with its own Slide Master and Project A still has its own Slide Master. Imported projects won't change the original project's formatting, and the original project won't change the imported project's formatting. They're two separate projects in one Story. If I want Project B to use the same styles as Project A, then I'd apply the layouts from Project A's Slide Master to Project B's slides.
By "prioritized," I mean that even after importing Project B when I add a new slide, it will use Project A's Slide Master layouts since that's the original Slide Master in the course.
Thanks for your response. So it sounds like heading styles are really configured more at the slide master level than at the project level, then. If they were set at the project level (to all master slides in the project across the board), then I would think this would apply to the imported masters, too.
I see that the link expired. In that video, I explained to Lisa how the heading style is based on the Slide Master used. I'm happy to help you directly! Are you running into an issue with the heading style?
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Hello Darlene!
Great question! This article explains how to update any of the text styles so that they're easy to reuse.
If you prefer to see these steps in action, here's a quick demo!
Hi Lauren.... Are heading styles set at the slide master level or at the project level? Based on the article you shared above, it looks like this is at the project level, since it mentions only setting the styles when on a content slide; it doesn't mention anything about setting styles in the master slides.
However, when you import slides, the heading styles differ at the slide master level. I imported two slides from our team slides, and the imported heading styles are incorrect. As you can see in the attached recording, the first master (the original one for this project) has Arial 20 pt. bold set for the H1 (slide title), but the second master (imported with the two slides) has Arial 24 pt. no bold. No attempts to reset the second master's style work to pick up the first master's style settings, but if the styles are set at the project level, they should apply to all masters and slides when you reset the style.
If you think that this isn't working as expected (e.g., that the heading styles should apply across the project), I can create a bug report.
Thanks,
Lisa
Hello Lisa!
Heading Styles can be set at the project level or slide master level. When importing slides, the heading style from the current project are prioritzed over the heading styles set in the imported project.
The heading style can be different in each Slide Master layout too. Here's a 2-minute tutorial on setting the Heading style when using multiple Slide Master layouts.
Hi Lauren,
Thank you for your response and the tutorial. Unfortunately, the tutorial doesn't really address my question.
What do you mean by "prioritized"? Shouldn't that mean that the heading style from the current project should be applied to imported slides, not that they should retain the styles from before? If yes, that's not the case.
Hi Lisa!
Let's say there are two projects, A and B. Project A is the main project, and Project B is the imported project. Project B is imported with its own Slide Master and Project A still has its own Slide Master. Imported projects won't change the original project's formatting, and the original project won't change the imported project's formatting. They're two separate projects in one Story. If I want Project B to use the same styles as Project A, then I'd apply the layouts from Project A's Slide Master to Project B's slides.
By "prioritized," I mean that even after importing Project B when I add a new slide, it will use Project A's Slide Master layouts since that's the original Slide Master in the course.
Hi Lauren,
Thanks for your response. So it sounds like heading styles are really configured more at the slide master level than at the project level, then. If they were set at the project level (to all master slides in the project across the board), then I would think this would apply to the imported masters, too.
Thanks,
Lisa
Hi, Lauren. That video link no longer works. Would you please share the current link? Thanks very much. - Carol
Hello Carol!
I see that the link expired. In that video, I explained to Lisa how the heading style is based on the Slide Master used. I'm happy to help you directly! Are you running into an issue with the heading style?