Reset numbering from story

I really hope there is a quick fix answer to this but I have yet to find it.

In my experience, what has worked for me in the past was to change the specification on the Next and Back triggers to the generic "Next Slide" and "Previous Slide" instead of specific slides and then right-click and cut the errant slides out, then click on the slide I want the sequence to begin from again, then paste the slide(s) back in.

They seem to assume the correct numbering once pasted back in. It is a little trickier with branching slides, but it's doable. Awkward.

Sorry if that isn't more helpful. It works for me and my clients are always jumbling slides around after a build has been done. Sigh.

Hi Melanie, 

From Story View, you can drag and drop the scenes to re-align the slide order/number: 

The above workflow might change the navigation order for your course, so you will want to be sure that the correct path is intact. You will also want to check the slide triggers in place that jump from one slide to the next to be sure the right order is there.

I also found an older thread that provides additional insights on Slide Order here. 

Hi Diarmaid,

Clever! Changing the triggers to next and then back to a specific path again worked. Sort of a pain, that this isn't a native feature. As you remarked, rebuilding the branching is time consuming; however, totally worth it as now the numbering will be correct. Thank you!

Hi Vincent,

Yes, this works if the scenes themselves are not updating numbers correctly ( I have definitely used this technique!). My problem, however, was slide numbering within a scene. The solution Diarmaid came up with works well. 

Between your solution and his, one should be able to correct numbering both intra-scene and inter-scene. Thanks!