Hi, For Storyline 1 there is a work around that allows you to have a numbered list where the numbers can be a different size and/or colour from the tex. I've tried this in Storyline 2 and it doesn't seem to work. As soon as I reformat the first character in the text the number adjusts its formatting to match. Has anyone encountered/solved this? Thanks, Anne.

Add a ZERO WIDTH Non-Joiner character (symbol) in front of first character. 200C - normal text - general punctuation - unicodeor copy/paste from: https://zerowidthspace.me/ Select the zero width (you wont see it selected) - Click B bold and the number bullet will be bold only. Credit Steve Rowland: https://medium.com/sharpn-visual-comms/how-to-format-numbered-lists-e3ce0fb4137

Hi Anne, The numbered list will default to the size and color of your text. However, if you go into the bullets and numbering area, you'll see that you can adjust the color and size as a percentage of the text. These changes will be retained when you format your text. Let us know if this is what you were looking for! Thanks, Mike

Hello Anne, We did have an issue with the notes tab defaulting to the text of the first character in Storyline 1, however it was not in Storyline 2. I just tested changing the font/color of a first character in a new file, and did not see any issues. I tried in the slide itself, as well as the notes. Do you have a file we could look at? I was able to change the first character, the number, to a different font, color, and size.

Hi Emily, I didn't have this problem in Storyline 1, only in Storyline 2. Here's a file so you can see the numbers keep defaulting to the size and colour of the text.

Hi, late to this party, but... where can I change the font of my numbers as well as the colour? Thanks

Formatting numbers in a numbered list (Storyline 2)

NicholasKostala
Community Member
2 years ago
I want to make sure I understand correctly: in Storyline, is there no way to format a list as follows?

1. Number and text are not bold.
2. Number is not bold, text is bold.

It appears to be possible to do this in the comment I'm typing right now. But Storyline can't do this? Sometimes it's necessary to have an ordered list in which some of the lines begin with a bold character and some do not. Is it not possible to create such a list in Storyline and have the numbers appear consistently not-bold? That would be a bummer.
- JoseTansengco
  Staff
  2 years ago
  Hello Nick,
  
  Happy to help!
  
  What you described is possible in Storyline 360 as long as you manually create the list. Here's a screenshot of a quick test that I did to verify:
  
  You're correct in that if you use the built-in list function, either the whole line of text will be in Bold or not at all, but the good news is that the spacing of the built-in list feature and a manually created list appears to be almost identical.
  
  The bottom text in the second screenshot was created using the list function.
  
  Let me know if you have any questions!
NicholasKostala
Community Member
2 years ago
Thanks Joe, I can use that as a workaround for now. The default spacing is not identical enough for my taste, but I can get it there using spaces of different font sizes. I appreciate your help.
EarlKreuzer-e3e
Community Member
11 months ago

Add a ZERO WIDTH Non-Joiner character (symbol) in front of first character.

200C - normal text - general punctuation - unicode
or copy/paste from: https://zerowidthspace.me/

Select the zero width (you wont see it selected) - Click B bold and the number bullet will be bold only.

Credit Steve Rowland: https://medium.com/sharpn-visual-comms/how-to-format-numbered-lists-e3ce0fb4137
- EarlKreuzer-e3e
  Community Member
  11 months ago
  FYI: You can change your text to any font after inserting the zero space. So you wont get a font error.
  
  Also, you just have to place your cursor in front of first character and select bold and it should just format the the number/letter bullet.
JulieTaylor-3a8
Community Member
9 months ago
thank you Earl that works perfectly with no visible gap at the beginning of the affected row. Great tip!!