I find that my caption text always includes a shadow effect, even if I remove the shadow effect manually and then use the "Set as Default Shape" option. When I insert a new caption and type text inside, I get all the text attributes I wanted, except that the shadow effect comes back. Help?
Hi Marisa and Welcome to E-Learning Heroes! I understand what you are saying and I can replicate this. As a work-around, check out this Screenr on how to remedy that shadow effect.
Which leads me to a "default" question related to captions system-generated in Storyline's function to record "step-by-step" screencasts in "view" mode. I understand you can select one default shape (including a caption shape), that should be generated when recording a step by step screencast from inside Storyline, but that this does not necessarily include the inherent text box or font attributes. Is that true?
Is there any other way to create text box font and attribute defaults (like not having Storyline always make the text to be shadowed)?? I thought rather than using the Format Painter option to globally make all captions (and text boxes within) the same, could you set a text box fontdefault setting within the design theme like the default font sets and in the slide master for backgrounds, colors, and placeholders????
Hi Marisa and Donna! What you are wanting to do is a great idea that others in the community have wanted to do as well. At this time, I could only suggest that you submit a feature request for this functionality.
I can set up a default text box for things such as font, size, and color - but the text box properties don't hold - is that what you're having difficulty with? That would need to be a feature request which you can submit here.
Exactly. I created a text box with 3 states: Normal, Hover, Visited.
Then I used the format painter to apply to several other text boxes. The boxes in their Normal state stayed as formatted. However, random text boxes reverted back to Resize Shape to Text when I checked the formatting on the Hover and Visited states. I wanted all of the boxes to be the same size, but I can't seem to keep the resize from happening on all of them.
If it's no reproducible regularly, I'd wnat to first check that you were working on local project files as described here, as working off a network or shared drive could cause odd behavior within your project files.
Also, instead of using the format painter, which I've heard other users say with states doesn't pick up all the elements - what about duplicating the object instead? That should carry over all properties and elements and then you could change the text as needed.
Using 360, is this functionality available for formatting a shape? Having to manually re-format my captions in Storyline and use Change Shape to get the shape to match the Velocity template caption shape. And then want them to have the same sizing. Eg. 163 (width) X 27 (high), wrap text, Resize shape to fit text and Wrap text in shape.
We haven't added a feature that matches what Marisa and Donna described some years ago. It sounds like using the Change shape and the Format painter would allow you to have consistent shapes across the board.
Also, if there are other specifics that you'd like to see in Storyline, you can share those by logging a feature request. Here's a bit more about how we work to prioritize feature requests.
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Hi Marisa and Welcome to E-Learning Heroes! I understand what you are saying and I can replicate this. As a work-around, check out this Screenr on how to remedy that shadow effect.
Thanks, Leslie. So, for now, no way to preserve "no shadow" in your default settings?
Which leads me to a "default" question related to captions system-generated in Storyline's function to record "step-by-step" screencasts in "view" mode. I understand you can select one default shape (including a caption shape), that should be generated when recording a step by step screencast from inside Storyline, but that this does not necessarily include the inherent text box or font attributes. Is that true?
Is there any other way to create text box font and attribute defaults (like not having Storyline always make the text to be shadowed)?? I thought rather than using the Format Painter option to globally make all captions (and text boxes within) the same, could you set a text box font default setting within the design theme like the default font sets and in the slide master for backgrounds, colors, and placeholders????
Hi Marisa and Donna! What you are wanting to do is a great idea that others in the community have wanted to do as well. At this time, I could only suggest that you submit a feature request for this functionality.
I'm running Storyline 2 and cannot figure out how to set text box defaults. Help!
Hi Beverley,
I can set up a default text box for things such as font, size, and color - but the text box properties don't hold - is that what you're having difficulty with? That would need to be a feature request which you can submit here.
Exactly. I created a text box with 3 states: Normal, Hover, Visited.
Then I used the format painter to apply to several other text boxes. The boxes in their Normal state stayed as formatted. However, random text boxes reverted back to Resize Shape to Text when I checked the formatting on the Hover and Visited states. I wanted all of the boxes to be the same size, but I can't seem to keep the resize from happening on all of them.
It's puzzling because the result is unpredictable and non-reproducible on a consistent basis.
Hi Beverley,
If it's no reproducible regularly, I'd wnat to first check that you were working on local project files as described here, as working off a network or shared drive could cause odd behavior within your project files.
Also, instead of using the format painter, which I've heard other users say with states doesn't pick up all the elements - what about duplicating the object instead? That should carry over all properties and elements and then you could change the text as needed.
Hi Leslie,
Using 360, is this functionality available for formatting a shape? Having to manually re-format my captions in Storyline and use Change Shape to get the shape to match the Velocity template caption shape. And then want them to have the same sizing. Eg. 163 (width) X 27 (high), wrap text, Resize shape to fit text and Wrap text in shape.
All the best,
Jane
Hi Jane,
We haven't added a feature that matches what Marisa and Donna described some years ago. It sounds like using the Change shape and the Format painter would allow you to have consistent shapes across the board.
Also, if there are other specifics that you'd like to see in Storyline, you can share those by logging a feature request. Here's a bit more about how we work to prioritize feature requests.
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