Bullets, Numbering and Indents

Hi. I'm using Storyline 2 and ran into the same issue today. So I'm adding one more workaround to the list, for everyone's reference.

Rather than trying to make Storyline format the text, I simply opened a new PPT file, built my list there with the indents, fonts, and so on that I wanted, then copied and pasted them into a text box in Storyline.

That, however, didn't entirely fix the problem....while I copied a numbered list, it pasted them as bullets. When I changed them to a numbered list in Storyline, I found a new challenge--I could change the color of the font, but not the numbers themselves...except for the final one. Crazy, huh? It gets better.

With only one item in my list--the final one--corrected formatted to the proper color, indentation, numbering, and so on, I went to the bottom of the list, hit the return key, and was presented with a brand new, perfectly formatted and colored number item. At that point, I began retyping my list, from top to bottom, and every new item I created maintained the formatting I needed.

Then I previewed my slide and...the text box failed to appear on the layers in which it was inserted. Can you say frustrated? After some further testing, I found that ONLY that text box would not appear on the layers during the preview--any other item on the layer worked fine. So I had one last step to do. On every layer I created a brand new text box. I copied and pasted from the original text box to the new one and...everything worked, and looked the way that I needed/wanted!

So here is the summary of my steps:

1. Create and format list in PPT.
2. Copy list into a Storyline text box
3. Change text color if needed, which from my experience only creates a single item that if fully formatted correctly.
4. Add items at the bottom of the list, correctly formatted.
5. Copy and paste the entire text box into a new text box--if necessary. (Test this in preview--you may not need to do this final step.)

Good luck all.

Ken

P.S. I did not put in a feature request, one because so many others have, and two, this is such a fundamental item I can't bring myself to think of it as a feature. Leaving this out would be like Microsoft saying, "We created a word processing software package. It works great--except you have to type your documents in another program and then copy them over to here." Shame on you Articulate--you make a program where we can make items look like they are flying, but we can't change the color of bulleted text???