So I used the "work around" for putting the spaces between the bullet points and now I'm seeing a little bullet point and a big one.
How can I fix this? I tried to click the bullet point on and off hoping it would fix itself, but nope. I'm seeing two different sizes. I'm sure this would be good if I were wanting a smaller one for a secondar bullet, hee hee.
Anyone encounter this and have a fix besides recreating the entire list?
I'm not sure if you've seen this thread already, or not, but the suggestions there might help you out. Have you tried those steps already? I've heard the additional blank line usually works the best.
I'm not sure if you've seen this thread already, or not, but the suggestions there might help you out. Have you tried those steps already? I've heard the additional blank line usually works the best.
Let me know how it goes!
Christine
Thank you for your response
That is actually what I did. I started with the extra lines and that is what caused the two different sizes. Not sure how to correct it without doing it all over again....which I don't want to do and waste valuable development time.
Alright, thanks And I totally understand wanting to save time. Are you able to share the project's .STORY file here? Or perhaps insert the single slide into a new project, so I can take a look? I can't promise I'll be able to save you time, but I can take a look and see if I can find a quick fix for this for you.
Thanks very much for the file. I played with it for a while. The best option I could find was to use a symbol. I managed to create one that's almost an exact match to the color and size of the original bullet you were using. There are some spaces after the symbol, to create that "bullet-ed" look. You should be able to just copy and paste that, if you would like to reuse it in another list. You can also easily adjust the color/size of the symbol if your other lists have other designs.
I know this isn't perfect, but hopefully it'll save you some time!
I'm attaching the modified file, so you can take a look.
Thank you!! Isn't that so strange that it happened like that?? I'm very technical and can figure things like this out, but, this one had me stumped as to why it created the smaller bullet. I wish I knew what happened so I could use that size bullet for a sub-set list of bullets.
my colleague has literally shown me a way to sort this bullet point issue out. Firstly, select everything within the text box then simply change the size! this will even the sizes all out.
my colleague has literally shown me a way to sort this bullet point issue out. Firstly, select everything within the text box then simply change the size! this will even the sizes all out.
Gav
Hi Gav,
I would love to say this is correct - however, I'm afraid it is not 100% as a solution, it may work, but not always.
We have been fighting this one for many months, and (as Christine says...) are all eager to see a stable solution developed.
my colleague has literally shown me a way to sort this bullet point issue out. Firstly, select everything within the text box then simply change the size! this will even the sizes all out.
Gav
Hello!
I know of this fix, however, it wasn't working with my file. Did you try to download the file I posted?
I went ahead and re-created the bulleted list and it seems to work fine now. Not sure why this happened.
And, so I have a workaround to share.
1. Create you text, highlight it all, make it 6 point
2. then put blank spaces in between the text lines
3. highlight each bullet line and hit the bullet icon to make it part of a list
4. Finally, highlight the text and change it to the desired font, in my case 14
The bullets will stay at 6 with the spacing at 6 in between the bullet points.
OH! be careful on what you are highligting when you put it back to size 14. Just highlight each line and be careful to not "grab" the extra line space underneath.
I've also been following this whole bullet point thing in various threads, and I, too, made a new "discovery" (workaround) that for me has been working pretty consistently in the last week. It doesn't involve any extra typing. And it's actually based on an old Microsoft Word bullet point tip that I thought I'd try out in SL.
So, to try to explain: in Microsoft Word (I've been a Word trainer for EVER) a similar phenomenon sometimes happens, where the bulleted text is one size but the bullet itself is a different size. Or, sometimes you want the bullet to be a different size.The secret fix to make Word behave (when it isn't) is to select JUST the paragraph mark (¶ )and at that point when you look at the Font size drop-down it will either be "blank" or it will have the wrong size displaying. You change it to your desired size, and...tada!
There are no paragraph marks in Storyline, but if you "make believe" and just select right after the last character, it's very similar. I just tested it with your original story, Kim, and it worked.
I removed your extra lines (I wasn't sure if that's what you wanted, but in any case you can put them back in and there's no problem; I have) first.
So, if you take a look at this screenshot: I've placed a yellow highlight at the location where I've highlighted (no highlight will appear). Note that in the drop-down the size is 12, although it's quite clear that the text is larger. I changed this to 18, and you can see the result in the next screen shot.
In this case the line with the comma was, admittedly, a little funkier to play with, but you can see I got it to work. Otherwise this has been working like a charm for me. If anyone else tries it, I'd be curious to know if it's a consistent workaround for y'all.
Thanks so much. My biggest issue so far is the bullet point size. It changes the size for me at the end. Please see attached. I am sure the solution is burried in the posts somewhere. If you knew of a quick way to fix it, please let me know. Thanks so muh!
If you create your bullet list the way I show you in the video, you should not experience the bullet point size issue. If you put a space between the bullets and have them just at "2", then you should be fine. Let me know if that works. Recreate your list, don't try to fix it.
Kim, thanks for taking the time to create the screencast.
Cammen, I just put together a quick screencast of my own. I've found that if you follow the steps I'd suggested in my Feburary 4th post, you don't need to retype the list. So, I've demonstrated them in my screencast - and included another tip as well. You can access it here:
Thanks so much for the video. It certainly fixes it. The bullet point size shouldn't have shrunk in the first place and I hope it will get addressed in the next release. Thanks again.
Cammen, glad to know it worked. Yes, I think we're all looking forward to some updates to bullets! You might want to submit a feature request if you haven't already. The more of us Articulate hears from the better!
I've also been following this whole bullet point thing in various threads, and I, too, made a new "discovery" (workaround) that for me has been working pretty consistently in the last week. It doesn't involve any extra typing. And it's actually based on an old Microsoft Word bullet point tip that I thought I'd try out in SL.
So, to try to explain: in Microsoft Word (I've been a Word trainer for EVER) a similar phenomenon sometimes happens, where the bulleted text is one size but the bullet itself is a different size. Or, sometimes you want the bullet to be a different size.The secret fix to make Word behave (when it isn't) is to select JUST the paragraph mark (¶ )and at that point when you look at the Font size drop-down it will either be "blank" or it will have the wrong size displaying. You change it to your desired size, and...tada!
There are no paragraph marks in Storyline, but if you "make believe" and just select right after the last character, it's very similar. I just tested it with your original story, Kim, and it worked.
I removed your extra lines (I wasn't sure if that's what you wanted, but in any case you can put them back in and there's no problem; I have) first.
So, if you take a look at this screenshot: I've placed a yellow highlight at the location where I've highlighted (no highlight will appear). Note that in the drop-down the size is 12, although it's quite clear that the text is larger. I changed this to 18, and you can see the result in the next screen shot.
In this case the line with the comma was, admittedly, a little funkier to play with, but you can see I got it to work. Otherwise this has been working like a charm for me. If anyone else tries it, I'd be curious to know if it's a consistent workaround for y'all.
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Hi Kim!
I'm not sure if you've seen this thread already, or not, but the suggestions there might help you out. Have you tried those steps already? I've heard the additional blank line usually works the best.
Let me know how it goes!
Christine
Thank you for your response
That is actually what I did. I started with the extra lines and that is what caused the two different sizes. Not sure how to correct it without doing it all over again....which I don't want to do and waste valuable development time.
Cheers!
Kim
Select from the small bullet to the end of the line, you knw you have it right when the font size changes to blank then resize.
the is crazy that we are still having to work around this issue
Hey Kim,
Alright, thanks
And I totally understand wanting to save time. Are you able to share the project's .STORY file here? Or perhaps insert the single slide into a new project, so I can take a look? I can't promise I'll be able to save you time, but I can take a look and see if I can find a quick fix for this for you.
Thanks!
Hi Phil and thanks
Yes, we're all eager to see this fixed.
Tried that, doesn't work.
Attached (I don't see it but went through the steps).....thank you!
Hi Kim!
Thanks very much for the file. I played with it for a while. The best option I could find was to use a symbol. I managed to create one that's almost an exact match to the color and size of the original bullet you were using. There are some spaces after the symbol, to create that "bullet-ed" look. You should be able to just copy and paste that, if you would like to reuse it in another list. You can also easily adjust the color/size of the symbol if your other lists have other designs.
I know this isn't perfect, but hopefully it'll save you some time!
I'm attaching the modified file, so you can take a look.
Thank you!! Isn't that so strange that it happened like that?? I'm very technical and can figure things like this out, but, this one had me stumped as to why it created the smaller bullet. I wish I knew what happened so I could use that size bullet for a sub-set list of bullets.
Thanks again!
Cheers!
Kim
Hi Guys,
my colleague has literally shown me a way to sort this bullet point issue out. Firstly, select everything within the text box then simply change the size! this will even the sizes all out.
Gav
Thanks for the information, Gavin!
Hi Gav,
I would love to say this is correct - however, I'm afraid it is not 100% as a solution, it may work, but not always.
We have been fighting this one for many months, and (as Christine says...) are all eager to see a stable solution developed.
Bruce
Hello!
I know of this fix, however, it wasn't working with my file. Did you try to download the file I posted?
I went ahead and re-created the bulleted list and it seems to work fine now. Not sure why this happened.
And, so I have a workaround to share.
1. Create you text, highlight it all, make it 6 point
2. then put blank spaces in between the text lines
3. highlight each bullet line and hit the bullet icon to make it part of a list
4. Finally, highlight the text and change it to the desired font, in my case 14
The bullets will stay at 6 with the spacing at 6 in between the bullet points.
Hope this helps everyone!
Kim
OH! be careful on what you are highligting when you put it back to size 14. Just highlight each line and be careful to not "grab" the extra line space underneath.
HI All,
I've also been following this whole bullet point thing in various threads, and I, too, made a new "discovery" (workaround) that for me has been working pretty consistently in the last week. It doesn't involve any extra typing. And it's actually based on an old Microsoft Word bullet point tip that I thought I'd try out in SL.
So, to try to explain: in Microsoft Word (I've been a Word trainer for EVER) a similar phenomenon sometimes happens, where the bulleted text is one size but the bullet itself is a different size. Or, sometimes you want the bullet to be a different size.The secret fix to make Word behave (when it isn't) is to select JUST the paragraph mark (¶ )and at that point when you look at the Font size drop-down it will either be "blank" or it will have the wrong size displaying. You change it to your desired size, and...tada!
There are no paragraph marks in Storyline, but if you "make believe" and just select right after the last character, it's very similar. I just tested it with your original story, Kim, and it worked.
I removed your extra lines (I wasn't sure if that's what you wanted, but in any case you can put them back in and there's no problem; I have) first.
So, if you take a look at this screenshot: I've placed a yellow highlight at the location where I've highlighted (no highlight will appear). Note that in the drop-down the size is 12, although it's quite clear that the text is larger. I changed this to 18, and you can see the result in the next screen shot.
In this case the line with the comma was, admittedly, a little funkier to play with, but you can see I got it to work. Otherwise this has been working like a charm for me. If anyone else tries it, I'd be curious to know if it's a consistent workaround for y'all.
Hello,
Is there a video out there that shows how to work around these bullet point issue? Thank you.
cammen
I created a quick one...without sound.
You can't see the first step, Insert, Textbox.....
If this isn't what you were looking for, please let me know.
Thanks so much. My biggest issue so far is the bullet point size. It changes the size for me at the end. Please see attached. I am sure the solution is burried in the posts
somewhere. If you knew of a quick way to fix it, please let me know. Thanks so muh!
cammen
If you create your bullet list the way I show you in the video, you should not experience the bullet point size issue. If you put a space between the bullets and have them just at "2", then you should be fine. Let me know if that works. Recreate your list, don't try to fix it.
Hi Cammen and Kim,
Kim, thanks for taking the time to create the screencast.
Cammen, I just put together a quick screencast of my own. I've found that if you follow the steps I'd suggested in my Feburary 4th post, you don't need to retype the list. So, I've demonstrated them in my screencast - and included another tip as well. You can access it here:
https://player.vimeo.com/video/204932642
Hope they work as well for you as they have been for me.
Hi,
Thanks so much for the video. It certainly fixes it. The bullet point size shouldn't have shrunk in the first place and I hope it will get addressed in the next release. Thanks again.
cammen
Cammen, glad to know it worked. Yes, I think we're all looking forward to some updates to bullets! You might want to submit a feature request if you haven't already. The more of us Articulate hears from the better!
Rebecca -- Thank you for your February 4th post. Worked like a dream!
Hi Julie,
Welcome to the community. So glad you found this helpful. Always nice to hear
, especially after taking time to put together a little demo.
Thanks Rebecca. This works great.
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