Text wrapping is not a feature of SL. Nor is flowing text into an irregularly shaped object such as a triangle or square. To my knowledge text can only be inserted through a text box (square or rectangular) or through the insert object command on a rectangle or rounded rectangle shape. It would be a great feature request and I encourage you to send one.
Nope. Still not there. I usually resort to forced line breaks to get this done. Of course there is danger there if you have to edit the text afterward. Put in the feature request. The more a feature is requested the more likely it will be implemented — I've seen it happen ;-)
My wish would be to be able to add text to any shape. So for instance you create a circle and the text would wrap to fill the circle. This way you could create any kind of shape you needed to fit around another object and then fill that shape with your text. (This is the way page layout programs like InDesign work.) The next step would be to add text threading where you could have several linked text boxes of any shape where the text flows through them automatically. That is a very powerful feature.
I also just sent in a feature request for this. For all the great features in Storyline 2, I was a bit surprised that there is no way to wrap text around an image, etc. This seems like a pretty basic feature!
It's still not a feature of Storyline to wrap around the images or other elements within a text box, so I appreciate you submitting the feature request.
Thank you so much for a wonderful product and incredible community of support. Happy Holidays to all of you and your families.
I can think of no better gift for all of your customers this season than to "wrap-up" some text. If you could you add this merry and joyous feature (text-wrapping) to your product soon, I promise to keep the spirit, "all the live long year" and pass it on to others in the community.
Remember this time of year, during those long winter days, the designers and developers in their cold offices, desperately trying to figure out another way to text-wrap around the photo of a loved one. Their fingers huddled around the candle yearning for warmth.
Please spirit show me no more...
If only we could give them more time to hurry home and hold their loved ones by the warm hearth by offering a simple text wrapping feature. Tell me these are the shadows of yet to come?
You gave me quite the chuckle here with this request - so I'm definitely going to pass it along. I also appreciate your sentiments and wishes for a happy Holidays. Same to you and your family!
Off to the feature request! I'm just glad this discussion was posted so I didn't have to spend a lot of time looking for the feature when it isn't there yet. Thanks!
Today at the Articulate Roadshow in Seattle we learned about scrolling panels. If used in a slide master, IDs have the ability to add a Picture Placeholder in the scrolling panel. Unfortunately because there is no floating text feature, the Picture Placeholder functionality is less valuable since text will be behind a photo you would like to be inside your scrolling panel.
Hello - as a new user to Articulate I am trying to place a box around a screen print to help the user find what to select on the page, is this possible, thanks.
Do you need to insert a shape to highlight something on your image? You can try using the rectangle shape formatted with an outline and no fill, like this:
Has this feature been added to SL360? Under the Format Shape>Text box there is a "wrap text in shape" option with a check box, but it is always grayed out. Do I need to access it in a different way to check that box?
You should see the option to "Wrap text in shape" if there is text included in a text box or in a shape. If the "wrap text" option is checked, the text will wrap within the dimensions of the shape, meaning the text will not extend beyond the width of the shape.
It sounds like you want to have the option to wrap text around another object, like an image. Is that correct? That's not currently a feature in Storyline 360, but I can see how it would be handy. I'll pass the idea along--thanks for letting us know how we can make things better!
Six years late to this conversation, but since it's still not in SL, I'm going to add to the feature request! It would be very nice to have text wrap around an image or shape!
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Text wrapping is not a feature of SL. Nor is flowing text into an irregularly shaped object such as a triangle or square. To my knowledge text can only be inserted through a text box (square or rectangular) or through the insert object command on a rectangle or rounded rectangle shape. It would be a great feature request and I encourage you to send one.
It would be a great feature request and I encourage you to send one.
Done. Thanks, Brett.
For a workaround, I would format my text and image in Powerpoint and then copy/paste them into Storyline as an image.
This is really too bad. Does anyone know if this feature has been added in SL 2?
Thanks
Nope. Still not there. I usually resort to forced line breaks to get this done. Of course there is danger there if you have to edit the text afterward. Put in the feature request. The more a feature is requested the more likely it will be implemented — I've seen it happen ;-)
My wish would be to be able to add text to any shape. So for instance you create a circle and the text would wrap to fill the circle. This way you could create any kind of shape you needed to fit around another object and then fill that shape with your text. (This is the way page layout programs like InDesign work.) The next step would be to add text threading where you could have several linked text boxes of any shape where the text flows through them automatically. That is a very powerful feature.
This shouldn't be hard for them to do, and surprised they haven't already.
I can see the text not wrapping if the textbox and image are two separate objects.
But, if you had the option to add an image inside of a text box then the text should wrap around it with no issues.
I would think that this would be basic html programming.
<div><img src="someimage.jpg" style="float: right;">Here is some text in the container</div>Off to make feature request.
Couldn't agree more Bruce - and for those that don't know where the link is you can submit feature requests here.
I also just sent in a feature request for this. For all the great features in Storyline 2, I was a bit surprised that there is no way to wrap text around an image, etc. This seems like a pretty basic feature!
Just submitted a request as i noticed it wasn't included in the most recent update :(
Hi Kelly,
It's still not a feature of Storyline to wrap around the images or other elements within a text box, so I appreciate you submitting the feature request.
Dear Storyline Staff and Developers,
Thank you so much for a wonderful product and incredible community of support. Happy Holidays to all of you and your families.
I can think of no better gift for all of your customers this season than to "wrap-up" some text. If you could you add this merry and joyous feature (text-wrapping) to your product soon, I promise to keep the spirit, "all the live long year" and pass it on to others in the community.
Remember this time of year, during those long winter days, the designers and developers in their cold offices, desperately trying to figure out another way to text-wrap around the photo of a loved one. Their fingers huddled around the candle yearning for warmth.
Please spirit show me no more...
If only we could give them more time to hurry home and hold their loved ones by the warm hearth by offering a simple text wrapping feature. Tell me these are the shadows of yet to come?
Ryan,
You gave me quite the chuckle here with this request - so I'm definitely going to pass it along. I also appreciate your sentiments and wishes for a happy Holidays. Same to you and your family!
Off to the feature request! I'm just glad this discussion was posted so I didn't have to spend a lot of time looking for the feature when it isn't there yet. Thanks!
Thank you for submitting a feature request, Paula! And I'm glad to hear this thread was a time-saver for you!
Even bigger time saver will be when we're able to automatically wrap text. ;-)
I'm guessing we need to keep asking for this feature! ;-)
YES this would be so helpful!!!
Today at the Articulate Roadshow in Seattle we learned about scrolling panels. If used in a slide master, IDs have the ability to add a Picture Placeholder in the scrolling panel. Unfortunately because there is no floating text feature, the Picture Placeholder functionality is less valuable since text will be behind a photo you would like to be inside your scrolling panel.
I +1 the feature enhancement request.
Hello - as a new user to Articulate I am trying to place a box around a screen print to help the user find what to select on the page, is this possible, thanks.
Hi Jane! Welcome to Articulate. 😁
Do you need to insert a shape to highlight something on your image? You can try using the rectangle shape formatted with an outline and no fill, like this:
Let me know if that's what you're going for!
Has this feature been added to SL360? Under the Format Shape>Text box there is a "wrap text in shape" option with a check box, but it is always grayed out. Do I need to access it in a different way to check that box?
Hi Carl,
You should see the option to "Wrap text in shape" if there is text included in a text box or in a shape. If the "wrap text" option is checked, the text will wrap within the dimensions of the shape, meaning the text will not extend beyond the width of the shape.
It sounds like you want to have the option to wrap text around another object, like an image. Is that correct? That's not currently a feature in Storyline 360, but I can see how it would be handy. I'll pass the idea along--thanks for letting us know how we can make things better!
Six years late to this conversation, but since it's still not in SL, I'm going to add to the feature request! It would be very nice to have text wrap around an image or shape!
Thanks, Erin. I see that we received your feature request!
Bumping this thread and submitting another feature request. This would be very helpful.