Text Boxes constantly resizing themselves!

Are you working in Storyline?  If so try setting your zoom to 100% when working with text boxes on your slide.

It usually is on 100%, I think, but I will double check.  

Thx.

Hi Kerry,

Thanks for sharing the video, and I'm sorry to hear about the carpal tunnel! Let's see if we can fix it, and I'd like you to check into the following things that could help us isolate the behavior:

• As Lara mentioned, you'll want to work at the slide zoom view of 100% - otherwise text boxes or text may shift when clicking outside or previewing. 
• Next, what's your DPI setting? It should be 96 DPI as described here
• Are you working with local project files? Working on a network or USB drive could cause odd behavior. 
• Have you looked at the text box property settings to see if there is something odd occurring there? 

Hi Ashley,

Thanks for the help.  I did contact customer service and they told me that the problem is the autofit, which I had not noticed.  I need to put it on 'do not use'.

 Thanks for you assistance!

Cheers,

Auto fit is the devil's tool. I can't think of a single time where it's been useful but innumerable times when it's got in the way.

Thanks Kerry for the update and I'm glad that our team was able to assist. 

I HATE AUTOFIT!!!!

Now that that's out of the way...

Is there any way to make this a default setting for text boxes instead of having to manually select it for every text box I create?

Hi Heather,

Storyline does have the ability that after you create a text box or caption, you can right click on the box and choose "set as default". You may also want to review this article on how to customize your text attributes here.