Text Boxes

Hi Robin,

I think it's just the way some objects appear on the slide, even if they don't have borders. I won't pretend to know the designer's secrets, but I have seen this appear on other objects in the past. 

I believe, and I may be wrong, that shapes containing text but displaying no fill or border usually do this so you're aware of the original size for the shape. Any chance those text boxes originated as shapes?

Thanks!

Christine

Thanks Christine that kind of makes sense.  They weren't shapes, but they don't have outlines.  However none of the text boxes have outlines on that graphic and only three of them have those little dotted lines.  Just glad to know that I don't need to do anything about it.

Hi Robin,

No problem :) I think it's really considered a "guide" for some objects, but I believe it's related to how they're displaying in the slide, the type of the object and what's applied to it.

Right, I don't think it's anything that should cause any problems. However, if you do happen to notice anything strange, please let me know.

Thanks very much!

Christine

Usually shows in SL like this when you insert a non-filled borderless box/shape over something to act as a mask.

Bruce

Well Bruce, it just so happens that is exactly the situation.  It is "over other objects."  Yea! so now I know what it really is.  Bruce & Christine thank you.  Also, I had two other questions posted about four hours ago.  Maybe one of you could help with those I love the genius in these forums.

Hi Bruce & Christine,

I am having another issue with the above mentioned graphic & three other graphics in my story.  When I stop working on my story project, save it, and close for the night, the next morning when I open the story file I will have graphics missing.  I am using my C: drive for all my Articulate files and I am not on a corporate network and I am using Windows 7 Ultimate.  Three times now I have had to select the place holder for the graphic->right click->choose change picture->navigate to where the picture is and resize it etc.  Once I copied it from the other program and pasted it into the story thinking that would solve the disappearing graphic issue.  It doesn't.  I just can't figure it out.

Robin   

Good morning Robin,

Does this happen for you in any other projects? If we can find out if this is specific to this file, it would help quite a bit. 

If you haven't already, please try to create a new file and insert some images. Save and close the file. Does the same thing happen when you reopen the file?

Also, how are the image files named? I have seen some instances where image files containing special characters (this includes spaces and underscores) have gone "missing" in projects. Try renaming the files, if you can and see if that makes a difference. 

If you don't see the same problem in a new file, it may be that the original course is corrupted. If you'd like, you're welcome to send the file to us. 

Thanks Robin!

Christine,

I am also having the same issue, and they DO appear when you publish to Word. How do you get rid of them?

Hi Alisa!

This thread is a bit dated and I do not see where Robin shared a file with our team. I am assuming you've gone through all the assistance shared in this thread, so would you be able to share your .story file with us so that we could take a look?