When I cut a slide, the view goes to the first slide in the scene

Hi Sue,

I'm sorry to hear about the odd behavior - but I want to be clear on what you mean by "cut a slide" - do you mean, delete the slide entirely? Can you tell me where you're cutting it from that it returns you to the first slide? 

Also, please make sure that you're working locally within the Windows environment and following along with the best practices here for working on the Mac. 

Yes, I delete the slide in the filmstrip. I right click and choose Cut and it always sends me back to the first slide. I am working locally...I've followed the best practices since I started. Still have lots of bugs I think....

Hi Sue

this is the behaviour in SL1 as well.  Happens in the variables list too...if you delete a variable from list it jumps back to the top of the list ... good feature requests I think!

Yeah, that behaviour annoys me in Storyline 1. It would be a nice feature to include in next updates!

Thanks Sue for confirming how you were seeing this behavior. I see what you're referring to as well, and you're welcome to share your thoughts in the form of a feature request as Wendy mentioned.

Thanks everyone. Glad I'm not crazy.

When I mean buggy, it crashed on me yesterday as I went to Control D to duplicate a text box. So Storyline2 is just as touchy as Storyline 1 in my opinion. So much for keyboard shortcuts

Hi Sue,

If Storyline continually crashes on you and you've already confirmed you're working locally and gone through the repair steps detailed here we're happy to take a look at your crash logs. You can follow these directions to gather them and use the link in that article to send them to our Support team. 

Thanks Ashley. One more thing is puzzling me. When I copy a text box and go to type in the new text. the color of the text has changed...any reason why? This is another thing really slowing me down. I'm using a right click copy and paste of the text box.

Hi Sue,

I just tried those steps on my own Storyline 2 files - and the text remains the same color as the copied box. If I copy and paste a text box, and then highlight all the text and remove it - the new text I begin typing will revert to my default of black.

If you're using the same color throughout, you could set that text box as the default (right click on the text box and you'll see an option to set as default) and then you can highlight all the text and begin typing anew and keep the same color. You could also use the format painter to transfer formatting properties from one text box to the next.

I don't see an option to set as default when I right click on the text box...is this a MAC thing?

Hi Sue,

I did a quick recording of how this looks for me - you'll see I can set the text box as default, and then when I copy/paste the color remains the same, and inserting a new text box also keeps the same color.

No such option on my right click. see screen shot

Hi Sue,

From that image it doesn't look to be a standard text box  - is the text added on an image, shape, button? 

It should be a text box. However, I inserted a new text box and was able
to right click and find the correct 'set as default.' Thank you!!
Another mystery solved.

Glad to hear it Sue