Unable to reorder slides

Feb 19, 2019

I've been trying to swap two slides in Storyline, but I keep getting a red arrow pointing to the moved slide. The moved slide now shows up on the right hand side in both Slides View and Story View. The user navigates to the next slide by clicking a "Continue" button. No branching or specific slides being navigated to in the Trigger Wizard.

Why am I unable to swap these two slides?

Very grateful for any help on this.

1 Reply
Ned Whiteley

Hi Marte,

The first thing I suggest you do is to check the trigger associated with the Continue button on the slide before the one you have just moved. If the trigger jumps the user to the "next slide" when the button is pressed, you should be able to swap the two slides without a problem and they will simply change place in the slide order. The Continue button will now jump the user to the correct "next slide".

If , as I suspect may be the case here, the trigger jumps the user to the actual slide by name (e.g. "1.2 Untitled Slide"), the slide will move to the side when you try and change the order, the trigger will be automatically changed to suit the slide's new name/number (e.g. "1.3 Untitled Slide") and this slide will always be the next slide visited when the Continue button is pressed. 

Change the trigger to "next slide" and all should be OK

 Hope this helps.

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