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Slide Order
Hello Heroes.
I am curious if anyone is experiencing a problem with slides changing order within Storyline. It has been plaguing me more and more recently. I will have a series of slides that follow a logical order, but the next time I open the project I find that the slide numbers have changed and the content is reordered. We can't manually change slide numbers and so therefore I have to fix it by changing the triggers from "next slide" to whatever Storyline has renumbered the slide to. Just wondering if I'm alone with this issue.
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- PeterAndersonFormer Staff
Hey Matt,
Sorry, that doesn't sound quite right and I haven't heard of it happening before. Just to be sure, are you working from your local drive, rather than a network or USB drive? Anything else unusual happening within your story file? If you'd like, we'd be happy to take a closer look at it. Please submit a case, including your .story file, using this link so our support team can assist you further.
Thanks!
- JudithBlackb538Community Member
My slides haven't moved lately, but i find it difficult to change the order of my slides when I want to. I can't seem to do that in the Normal view, but have to go the Story view.
It would be great to have a slide sorter, like PPT has, so you can review and change the order of the slides more easily!
- PeterAndersonFormer Staff
Hi Judith,
Please feel free to share your ideas directly with our development team. We take our feature requests seriously

- JudithBlackb538Community Member
OK, will do.
- susanneflynnCommunity Member
I am having a similar problem. I can't seem to get the slides to stay put when I try to move them around in story view. If I change the order by using the trigger feature, I don't like not having them look like they are not in the right order. Any suggestions anyone? Thanks!
- PeterAndersonFormer Staff
Hi Susanne,
Are you able to share your .story file, or maybe a screencast replicating the issue, so we can try to figure out what the problem might be?
Thanks!
- susanneflynnCommunity Member
Hi Peter,
I have been looking at older posts and was reading about using the menu in player. I tried that and while not a great fix, it works. I agree with another poster, it would be good if Storyline has a slide sorter like PPT or if the slides were easier to drag and drop in story view.
So I think I am good for now. Thanks!!!
- PeterAndersonFormer Staff
OK, sounds good! And thanks for the feedback

- SallyEllisCommunity Member
Hi folks - read the replies to this one with interest. I am having the same issue. I also read the fix in the player options - did that but still irks that it doesn't appear in logical sequence in story view. Tried to drag and drop to relocate the slides in story view but no luck, as the slide simply 'bounces' back to original position. Obviously this creates an issue with numbering and progression. Help!
Hi Sally and welcome to E-Learning Heroes! You may want to check out this thread where it was previously discussed and I think the Screenr posted by Tracy is what you are looking for.
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