I just discovered View>Guides move...!

LOL Bruce!! Unfortunately no, I don't have game about that.   But we do have a tutorial about the design grid & guides, and will be adding a screencast to it soon.

I am rubbish   :(

LOL. No. You are amazing! And I'm so glad you posted this, because there are all sorts of useful little things like that in Storyline that people might not know about. Case in point: just the other day I realized that our awesome developers added a neat feature where you can just double-click a sound clip on the timeline to immediately open up the audio editor. And for the longest time, I've been doing it the long way (right-click and choose Audio Editor, or select the sound and click Audio Editor on the ribbon). Storyline is like opening a really big stack of presents but the stack never seems to get smaller. 

I sought feel quite chuffed then as I discovered that little nuggut on the 1st dau I had storyline, I thought to myself that was a pretty good feature!

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Love both of the tips that came out of this. I'm the worst at finding these types of short-cuts on my own--I blame it on being too much of a rule -follower.  

LOL Jeanette!! Love that  I"m going to print that out and hang it on my cube wall as a reminder!! (seriously!)

DOH!

Hi,

i do have a question about the guides: How di I lock them?

I try to move objects and miss a click, accidentally click on my guide-line and move the line instead. I want to avoid this, so can i lock them to their position?

Hi Wolfhard, and welcome.

Unfortunately - they cannot be locked, and "Undo" does not apply to them.

Please would you make a Feature Request, as it's a great idea, (and has caught me out on more than one occasion!).

Thanks

Bruce

Hi Wolfhard! I wanted to pop in and welcome you to E-Learning Heroes as well.  I see that Bruce is taking care of you here, but let us know if you need anything further.

Thanks Bruce!

Hi Wolfhard and Bruce,

Here is an idea that I've seen and written about before. Use lines on your Master slides as guides instead of the normal guides. Just set the initial state of the guide to hidden on the Master. They become grayed out lines on the slides that they are applied to but won't be visible when you publish or preview.

A couple of downsides: items won't snap to them and you can't turn them on and off like you can the normal guides, they're always on. On the plus side you can have different guides on different Masters, something that's not possible with the normal guides, which are global.

@Brett - nice idea, however, I guess what I am trying to do here is add some "real-world usability" to an existing feature. Conceptually they are great, but just occasionally they accidentally get zapped - so locking them would be so much simpler especially as we can already lock existing screen objects.

I do not want to resort to workarounds this early on.

Bruce

hi bruce,

would you happen to know how to copy/duplicate the view guides when you are running storyline in mac using vmware? i need to have multiple view guides in a slide when working.

in a normal windows installation, you simply press CTRL+CLICK+DRAG&DROP to where you want another view guide to appear.

the other CTRL + function works like CRTL+A, CTRL+C, etc.  

thanks,

caesar

Sorry Caesar - no idea.

Send Phil Mayor a message as he uses a Mac - he may know.

He's on holiday with horrible connectivity at the moment, so may not answer!

Bruce

 Hold SHIFT + CONTROL and click and hold on an existing guide. You should see a '+' sign appear instead of the numerical location. Then just drag while holding to add another guide.

We should create a VMware Mac keyboard shortcut list for all of this. I've had to click and push all kind of funky combinations to figure out nudging, duplication, etc. The guides took me a bit.

Hit post before adding, to move or nudge guides hold SHIFT + OPTION, then click on a guide and drag it. This moves it incrementally instead of a few snaps each time.

Thanks Michael for chiming in with a Mac solution!