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Continued issues with text running off slide
I know this issue has been brought up before but it continues to persist and seems to be getting worse. We are using Storyline 360 on local computers. When we use a text placeholder from the Master ...
Hello Everyone!
I wanted to share some great news! We are no longer seeing the bug that caused text boxes to break after applying a built-in theme in projects imported from PowerPoint to Storyline.
Please make sure that you are using the current version of Storyline 360 (3.72.29699.0).
To confirm or update your version of Storyline 360:
- Launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your Windows machine.
- Click the drop-down arrow next to Storyline 360 and select Other Versions.
- Here you will see the current version being used, or have the option to update.
Please let us know if you're still encountering the issue and we'd be happy to continue troubleshooting with you in a support case.
I am having the same issue with the text running off the slide after I import the PowerPoint file. I know you can check the wrap text box, but I am dealing with courses that are over 100 pages! Unfortunately, I didn't know this was an issue until I had updated an entire course, saved it and when I opened it, all the formatting was gone! So I attempted to prevent this issue with the next course I imported, so I made sure the text wrap box was checked before making any updates, and then I saved it , but it didn't matter because when I opened the course, all the formatting was gone and box was unchecked!! I spent a whole day formatting text boxes!
It appears that this issue has been posted for many years so I am shock to see that it hasn't been resolved. We purchased Storyline 360 thinking it would be easier to upgrade our courses, but now we are having second thoughts due the amount of time it takes re-format for each slide after it is imported (not only do we have to check the text wrap box, we then have to change the size and position for each slide). Will this issue ever be resolved , or is there something we can do prior to importing the ppt. files so that we don't spend a large majority of our time reformatting the text in the course after importing it into Storyline 360?
Yes, it is frustrating when it occurs. In my case, I ended up discovering that I caused this to occur on my own. I’ll explain and maybe you can verify that you haven’t done the same thing.
When I imported a PowerPoint file, I discovered that I didn’t like the distorted appearance in Articulate of a background image that we had on all of our slides. The background was for the wide screen 16:9 setting in PowerPoint. When it was imported, it distorted our logo by compressing the width to whatever the parameter setting is in Articulate. I deleted that project because I wasn’t going to use it with that look. So, this is where I ended up creating my own yet-to-be-discovered issue and self-inflicted problem.
I applied a new slide Master in PowerPoint to my slides. Then I imported to Articulate. That is where I noticed what you are noticing. It was quite painful to edit the large slide-deck. As I was going through the motions to avoid the distortion and hopefully avoid the large editing job again is when I noticed that applying the new slide master in PowerPoint caused the issue. I noticed that all of text in my PowerPoint files had taken on the properties of the slide master.
Basically, I discovered that the problem pre-existed in PowerPoint and the Articulate import did exactly what is was supposed to do. It brought my PowerPoint mess over and created an Articulate mess. I cannot say that this will solve the issue for you, but that is where my issue came from. If you made any changes in PowerPoint before importing you may want to check that the PowerPoint file is fine before importing it.
Sorry for the long story. Hope that helps someone. I like both tools. Each has its best application.
Craig D
