Can you copy a Zoom Region?

No, the best way I find is to build once then duplicate the slide

Rats!  I have already built the all of the slides.  Thanks anyway.

I was wishing you could copy a zoom region as well. Or, failing that, specify the exact dimensions (or at least one dimension and let Storyline calculate the other dimension like a locked aspect ratio item you're re-sizing) and locations of the zoom region the way you can specify the location and dimension of a rectangle shape.

In a simulation, the screens are changing based on the action in the simulation, and you can't really copy the slide and ....

Wait, wait, wait... I think I see the solution!!!! On the slides in a sim where you need to zoom in, stop the simulation. Then create another simulation, this time zooming in to a tighter focus on the area you want to concentrate on. Then stitch the simulations together....

So, I guess the lesson here is record it once, just to get a feel for what you're doing, and then plan a more elaborate simulation based on the needs of the application and the learner.

Dang! Wish I had thought of that a week ago.

Hi Chris,

Thanks for sharing that idea here, and I'm glad you figured out something that would work for you, although I'm sorry it took a week! In regards to your initial thoughts on copying a zoom region or specifying the size, I'd encourage you to submit those as feature requests. 

I was in Chris' situation, however I had to duplicate "zoom regions" on a software simulation screen capture in "try mode". What I tried to do first, was to (1) duplicate a slide with a zoomed region, and (2) copy the content from another slide to the duplicate. However this did not work, as it seems that one cannot copy screen captured content from slide to slide!!

My solution was to focus/zoom into one corner of my work area, and click back and forth between the slide that contained the correct zoom region, and the next slide where I wanted to match the zoom region. I started in the top left corner to align the original zoom region with the zoom region on the next slide, then moved to the bottom right corner of each to finish. Throughout this process, I continued to click back and forth between slides to "eyeball" the dashed lines.

Although I was manually matching the zoom regions, zooming in on my work space proved to save time, as it enabled me to accurately align the zoom regions between slides. 

My solution has been to stick post-it notes to my screen at the top left and bottom right points of the zoom region... probably not ideal but it worked fine.

Hi Sean,

Thanks for sharing here - whatever works, right? :-) 

Clever!

I have the same problem.

Currently I display the ruler, grid & guide, then I try to align the different zoom on the grid.

It's not accurate but better than nothing. However it would be great to have something that we can simply duplicate from a slide to an other. 

Thanks for sharing Jean and Welcome to the community!