How to stop auto advancing slides in Storyline after import from PowerPoint

Hi Maree!

By default, when you import your slides from PowerPoint, all slides have the Slide Property of Slide Advances: Automatically. See this article: https://community.articulate.com/series/74/articles/articulate-storyline-360-user-guide-how-to-adjust-slide-properties#advance

You can easily change all of your slide to Slide Advances: By User from Story View. In Story View use the keyboard shortcut CONTROL + A (and CONTROL + A a second time if you have multiple scenes). This will select all of the slides in your entire project! Then, make that adjustment there in the Slide Properties area to BY USER and it will change all of the slides that are selected!

(One thing to note, if you have a question bank draw selected, you won't be able to access the Slide Properties. You can de-select the Question Bank Draw(s) and you'll be good to go!)

I hope that helps!

Stefanie

Hi, Andrea.

Thank you for reaching out!

Can you confirm that in Story View, if you select all your slides, this is what you see in the Slide Properties?

If your properties are the same as the screenshot above, I'd like to look at your project to see what's going on. Would you be comfortable sharing your .story file either publicly here or privately through a support case? 

Oh my, this is exactly what was happening to me - you've just saved me potentially hours! Thank you!

Hi! I have my slide properties to continue by user and my surveys/graded questions.  The slides are advancing anyway.  I there another to stop it from doing this?

Thank You'

For me, I can see the Slide Advances option but the dropdown shows only one option "Automatically". I can't click to change it to "By user". What am I missing?

Hello, Vivekananda, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes! ✨

I'm sorry to hear you're having issues with the slide advances option! Would you be comfortable sharing your .story file either publicly here or privately through a support case so we can see what's going on?

I am having the same issue as Vivekananda. I can see the Slide Advances option but the drop down shows only one option "automatically". It will not give me the drop down options to change it to "by user". 

Hi, Shauna, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes! ✨

Thank you for reaching out!

Let's try to narrow down the issue:

• Is this happening with one specific .story file or every file in Storyline 360?
• Are you working from a local hard drive? We don't recommend working with files on a network drive.  
• Have you attempted to repair Storyline 360? Here are the instructions.

If a repair doesn't solve the issue, would you be able to share your .story file either publicly here or privately through a support case so we can see what's going on?

Thank you for the quick response! I don't believe any of those are the underlying issue:

• Yes, seems to be happening with multiple .story files for multiple users
• I believe I am working from a local hard drive. I uploaded the PowerPoint from my personal H drive
• We shouldn’t need to repair Storyline as it was just re-installed by our IT department today

I have shared the .story file for you to look at.

Hi, Shauna.

Thank you for sharing the .story file and the additional details!

I was not able to replicate the issue on my end, as I could click the drop-down menu and change Slide Advances to By user on your file:

It couldn't tell from your screenshot what happens when you try to click the drop-down menu. Does it open but with a disabled option? Or are you not able to click the arrow?