How do you create a line break if you have a long title?

Hey Chris, 

Do you have a sample course you could share with us? Or give me an idea of how long some of these titles are, in terms of total characters, so we can take a closer look at this? Thanks for bringing this to our attention...

Well, for one, wherever possible, I try to avoid long course titles.  The shorter the better, but sometimes that's not possible, especially for things like compliance training on some regulation or standard, or where the client really wants them.

One option is to put the course title on the slide itself (just don't have it on the top menu bar)--then you can do what you want there on the slide.  Then just publish the course with no title.

That will create a folder with the content called "output."  You can always rename that it needed or the zip if you choose that option.

I do this all the time for my client 3M.  They have a pretty strict corporate branding standard that we need to follow so I publish the course with no title on the top menu bar with the course title on the slides themselves.

I submitted a sample file with case.

Any length that goes beyond what will display on a single line. By default, Storyline just cuts off the text if it reaches the right-margin of the player.

Thanks, Gerry, but unfortunately, those aren't options for me. We have strict product naming and branding, as well, and also use other menu items in that top header, so it would look a bit naked without a title all of a sudden. We put out a lot of courses, so changing how we do it all of a sudden would probably not be well accepted. And I also prefer to use the screen space for the content and don't always have room for lines of text.

It also doesn't really resolve the baseline problem. It's POSSIBLE to create multiple lines, but it's not built-in to the software. It takes a trick to do it.

Thanks, Chris. We got the case and will take a look. Someone will contact you ASAP with any possible solutions.

Got you. 

One trick for putting things on a second line is to add a top menu item, make sure it is on the left side and and give it a trigger that'll do nothing should the text be clicked or something.

Of course, the second line as "pseudo" menu item will be in a slightly smaller font.  Might that work?

No, that would probably be more trouble than it's worth.  But as I stated, i can get the line break to work, via some undetermined mystical force--I was just hoping for an easier way to do it via a Storyline menu.

Hey, Chris - 

Looks like linebreaks can be pasted into the title. One way to replicate this is to create a text box on any slide. Type your first line then hit Shift-Enter to create a linebreak. Then type your second line and select then copy the text to the clipboard. Now you can paste into the title field and your break will transfer into the title.

I was able to get 3 lines into the title using this method.

Ah - thanks, Steve! I will try that.  That must be how I got it to do it before.  But copying and pasting into something like Word or an email did not work.  Must only work within Storyline itself!

Yeah. Tried Notepad and Word first. Was a no-go. Also tried /n br/ etc... no joy there either. Only thing that worked was double / triple lining it within a Storyline text box.

I remember at DevLearn we tried /n and br/, etc.  It still remains a mystery what 'character' that line break is in the title. If you run the cursor over the title with the line breaks in it, it stops at that spot, so there is something there creating that line break. No one can seem to figure out what it is, though.