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Bullets, Numbering and Indents
Just wondering if I'm missing something. I'm used to being able to adjust the hanging indent for bullets and numbered lists, but I'm not seeing a way to do so in Storyline.
I'm also having some issues with bullets appearing to be a different size on each different line. Is there a work-around?
I'm currently rebuilding an old Articulate course from scratch in an effort to teach myself Storyline. Liking what I'm seeing so far, but a little concerned about this.
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I'm wondering why this hasn't been fixed in over 14 YEARS. This is something that makes bulleted lists with multiple lines of text unusable. Shouldn't it be a relatively easy feature to add? So many other threads with decade old problems that haven't been addressed as well...C'mon Articulate, what are you doing?
Jan,
What I now do is tab (or indent) the first line over (as I gather you are doing). Then, at the end of that line insert a soft line break (Shift + Enter). Then use the tab and space keys to line up lines under the first.
Easy to do once or twice, but a real time waste doing this over and again, and what is missing--as has been pointed out earlier in this thread--is basic functionality baked into just about any application out there today that handles text.
This still seems to be a problem. I have a client who has very specific bullet spacing requirements and I have to adjust each text box rather than assign a text style.
Thanks Leslie,
Correct: I am adding my own numbers to control how they continue from slide to slide.
Gotcha John - no worries. Looks like paragraph and bullets work differently. In the example Ashley shared above, and we discussed this internally, she used bullets and it's indenting the first line. The hanging indent on the paragraph doesn't seem to be working and you want the lines below the first line like Word does from what I understand :)
Thanks Leslie,
I should have directed this to Ashley: In her reply, she demonstrated that this is working for her and I would like to know how she gets this to work so that I can get hanging indents to work for us as well.
Thank you John.
As I mentioned above, I did report this to our team. I'll include your example as well.
Ashley and Leslie,
This is just not working as advertised for me. Please take a look at the attached, done in Storyline 3.
Hey John - I did file this as a possible bug with our team since it obviously performs differently than the Word formatting. Looks like paragraphs and numbers and bullets have different results as well based on Ashley's testing.
I'll admit, not a feature I've ever used :)
Hi John,
I took a look at adjusting these in Storyline 3 myself, and you'll see they do take the adjustment here. My video shows with bullets but I also tested it with a numbered list and saw the same results.
If you want to share your exact needs, and/or a copy of your .story file I can also give it a test there.
Thank you for your example. The point is making the second line indent. It is easy to change the first line to indent (and that is what is the 'hanging' part of the paragraph instructions), but that was not what was asked. (As I understood it). I have a slide where I want 2, 3, and 5 to indent, I am unable to move the second line over.
Thanks Leslie,
Correct: Am trying to do a hanging indent as Word allows for a numbered list: The first line (containing the number) is at the margin, and all following lines are indented.
Storyline has a control for this at Home > Paragraph > Line spacing > Line Spacing options ..., but it doesn't work. I have selected Hanging indent and applied a number of different values, but the selected paragraph remains flush left.
