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Bullets, Numbering and Indents
Fair enough Daniel. I was frustrated after working on my list of steps for several HOURS in order to get the formatting to work. And I should have realized that while my "Shame on you" was intended to be a mild scolding driven by my frustration, text doesn't convey tone or intent. So that one is on me, and it's my bad. I'll also say thank you to both you and Ashley for responding and calling me out on it without escalating. I may not agree to categorize this as a "flaw"--it is more fundamental to me than that--however I do understand that any product is bound to have its own quirks and issues. Thank you both for your patience in the face of my frustration.
Ashley, thanks for your clarification. I'd attach a copy but the issues are now several revisions back and gone--I can't recover them at this point. Yesterday when I began this journey I was doing exactly as you describe, selecting the text and using the color picker and that--along with any other formatting changes I made to the text--would affect the text and not the numbers.
Though I don't have those files at this point, I will note this--I double-checked things this morning on my current file based on your recommendations, and there are still "oddities" I don't understand. If I select my text and apply the bold, italic, or underline buttons, the changes only affect the text itself, not the number, e.g., the sentence turns bold but the number remains normal. Other than those three, the other formatting buttons, for example the shadow button, seem to work and apply to both the text and bullet/number. I've tried selecting the text using multiple methods, per Daniel's suggestion, and get the same results regardless.
The color picker is also now working. As you could tell from my workaround, I went through a LOT of steps to get the formatting to look right, and it was frustrating when even color changes were not working in my early version. Now that I've copied and pasted the text from one box to another and in some cases even retyped the text, that glitch seems to be solved, so that is good. I wish I could identify what caused the problem in the first place so I don't have to go through this again!
What I don't see is any ability in Storyline 2 to set the indent distance between the bullet/number and text--which is what started my whole need for a workaround in the first place. Am i correct that Storyline 2 does not allow you to set or change that distance?
Hi, Ken: Someone correct if I'm wrong, but I don't think you can set this
distance like you can in PPT. There are spacing options, though. Below is
the paragraph dialogue with options ( via line spacing icon on the menu).
Hi Ken,
Thanks for coming back around and sharing a bit more information as well. I understand you're unable to share the file at this point after so much back and forth, so in the future please don't hesitate to reach out here or send along to our Support team - as we're always happy to help and would rather do that then have you become frustrated! Support via the forums or a case is always free, so we're here for you. ;-)
As for the the general oddities, I did want to check that you're working on project files as described here - as working off things like a network drive can cause a lot of unexpected and frustrating behavior in your .story file. Another good solution is to look at importing it into a new project to resolve oddness. Lastly as a good general rule, you'll always want to be on the latest update as well - we're currently on Update 6 of Storyline 2.
Brett and Daniel are correct in terms of the spacing elements you mentioned needing here. I also tested the Bold, Italic, Underline in my Storyline 2, and could add all those elements in as normal, the only issue was when trying to combine them such as line 1 bold, and line 2 underlined, the letter/number formatting retains the first setting unless I change the text box as a whole.
Please feel free to let us know if you need anything else.
