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Delete Content on Slide
I JUST started playing around with Storyline, and no matter what I do I can't figure out how to remove content. I inserted a video to practice, and if I select the picture and hit "delete" or "backspace" nothing a happens, if I right click there is no option to delete either. How do I do this??
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Interesting. Thanks for sharing Paola and for teaching us about your keyboard :)
backspace doesn't work
'delete' button is only option (if you don't want to right-click 'cut' everything)
If anyone has to ask how to delete something then this can't be anything other than poor UI design!
Just encountered this with a button. Select it and hit delete and it starts deleting the contents. Right-click, no delete option and cut is disabled. Only way I found to delete it is to select it in the timeline and cut it. I don't want to cut it - I want to delete it! And when editing the text, the cursor is almost invisible so no idea you're editing the text.
Just follow standard UI practice then anyone working on Windows or Mac (a Mac is a PC too!) will know what to do. Madness!
the delete button on the keyboard works on both a Mac and a PC, on Macs without a delete key then fn+backspace works.
Not for a button it doesn't. Try it. Just spotted that if you hover over the edge of the button until you get a move icon then right-click gives more sensible options. But still no delete - just cut.
The point is to follow normal practice. When I right click on something I expect to get an appropriate context menu. Shouldn't need to know to right-click a specific part of something to get the appropriate options.
As I say, anyone having to ask such a basic question means the UI is lacking.
Clicking inside a button is for selecting the text. To select the button, click the border, just as you do with a text box in Word. Actually, pretty standard practice for objects on which you can change the text.
