Bullets, Numbering and Indents

Hi Sean,

as for adjusting the hanging indent, with Presenter you are taking advantage of Powerpoint capabilities to do so but you cannot adjust it in Storyline. You can only adjust the indentation of the paragraph itself making it look like multi-level bulleted list.

Regarding the different size of bullets, I know we had the problem and, if I remember well, the workaround is to add an extra line after the last bullet and to apply the same size and font as the previous line.

Hope it helps and have a nice day!

Annie

The third bullet is significantly smaller. I've tried adding additional hard returns after, to no avail.

EDIT: And now I close Storyline and re-open and it seems to have resolved itself.

Hi Sean,

I have tried reproducing it... the workaround is adding 2 hard returns and then, selecting these lines and applying the font and size corresponding to the previous lines.

Annie

I can't believe the hanging indent support would be non-existent. I have a numbered list that wraps and the indents don't line up. I noticed it with content imported from PPT, but when I build a slide from scratch I get the same result. Am I missing something or can I not have a nice list that has line wraps?

I have the same issue with the hanging indents.

I'm also wondering about continuing a numbered list across slides... there doesn't seem to be a way to do so. Or start a numbered list at anything other than 1.

Hi Sean, 

One of our Super Heroes (Bruce? Phil? Gerry?) came up with a workaround awhile back for continuing a numbered list across multiple slides. I'll try to do some digging for the original thread, but I believe it involved moving the list off the top of the stage so that the first however many numbers of your list were hidden from sight when previewed / published.

Sean, the ability to adjust/set tabs for hanging indents is not available currently in SL.There are a number of other text handling functions that are missing such as tables, hyphenation, threaded text boxes, etc., that can drive me crazy. I'd suggest putting in a feature request in the hope that these make it into the next build.

WORKAROUND SOLUTION:

I wanted to break a procedure across two slides, but I found that I couldn't continue the numbering from the last step on the previous slide onto the next slide. So I copied the numbered list from the previous slide (that started at 1) and and pasted it onto the next slide. Then I highlighted all steps and turned numbering off. From that point, I manually created the continuing number sequence, spaced, and indented (hard returns) each step accordingly to create a similar "look-n-feel" from the previous slide (see attached). Seem to work well when published.

Hope this helps others until renumber (or continued numbering) and indenting is applied to the product.

Can we get some hanging indent love in the next Storyline release? It suggests that we don't know our bullets look goofy, when of course we are painfully aware of it.

Hi Daniel,

Many, many of us feel your pain and indeed embarrassment. If you haven't already, put in a feature request.