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Confusion on Types of Text Boxes (Icons)
Hello! In Storyline, I recently ran into an issue where some of my text boxes were not allowing me to animate them in by paragraph, only as one object (the option by paragraph was not present). After looking into this, I found that some of my text boxes have different icons on them in the timeline. The ones that ARE allowing me to animate in by paragraph have the normal "text box" icon and the ones that AREN'T have this other icon with an orange header shape (almost reminds me of a slide icon). I'm attaching a screenshot of them next to each other here. Can anyone tell me what the icon with orange header means and how it got here? I don't recall doing anything different, but clearly I have a mixture of these text boxes and the standard ones.
Another thing to note, is if I created a new textbox and just typed or pasted some plain text in, it is fine. But if I created a new text box, then copied and pasted text from the not-working type of text box, it would not work.
Thanks everyone!
I found my answer in this thread here. Although, I still don't understand how I created title text boxes instead of content text boxes.
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I found my answer in this thread here. Although, I still don't understand how I created title text boxes instead of content text boxes.
Nice detective work, LeeMillardButlr, and thanks for tracking down and sharing the solution you found!
Those text boxes with the orange header icon come from slide layouts, where the title area is a placeholder with different behavior than a standard text box. They can also show up when duplicating slides or copying content from an existing title placeholder, since that placeholder behavior carries over with the text.
Really appreciate you circling back with what you discovered. I’ve also shared this with our product team as a UX improvement idea, since making these differences clearer in the interface could help prevent this kind of confusion for others in the future.
Hi Eric. I appreciate the explanation. Is there a way to convert a title text box to a content text box? Is the benfit of a title text box over a content text box in the accessibility of it? I'm curious on the advantages of one over the other. Thanks!
LeeMillardButlr: For future reference...
