Globally change Notes font in Storyline?

Hi Claudine - 

There isn't an authoring environment global setting for the notes font / size. However, you can export to a Word document using the translation feature. Then using Word's search features, find a specific font / size and set a new font size to the selection. Then use the translation feature to re-import the file.

All text formatting done to the translation file should come right back into your storyline source document.

Hi Steve,

That's a good suggestion. I have a follow-up.  Assuming we just want to change the notes font, in order to quickly change only the Notes font in the Word document, we could  "Find Articulate 9" and "Replace with Arial12" (or whatever our target typeface/size was). Yes?

Right, that's what I was getting at too, Bruce. Since by default, Notes is Articulate 9, and assuming you're not using it elsehwere.

Find, Articulate, 9pt: Replace with (e.g.,) Arial 12 pt

Hi Rebecca - 

Yes, that's the assumption I was under. The font is so small and off-sized that the chances are small that it would appear elsewhere.

I was looking for a way to do this, also. I tried this, but the Find / Replace didn't work, even within the Word doc. Did anyone try this and have any luck with it? 

The Notes are so tiny, it's crazy hard to read them. 

Hi LaRue,

As far as I know there isn't any way to change the font size globally, although you can update the notes from Storyline as described here. 

Hi, Ashley, thanks for the reply, but it looks like this is about changing the appearance of the Notes in the player. 

I thought this thread was about changing the notes in the Storyline interface. Above, the instructions say to use the translations export / import feature, which does change the font when imported back in. I was hoping someone had found another simpler way to do it from within Storyline! 

It's odd, because before you start typing in the Notes field, the placeholder "Click here to add notes" font size looks like about 12 pts... but as soon as you start typing, it changes to only 9 pts. (see attached screenshot). It's pretty time intensive to go through and change each one but it's really hard to see them, and I often take clients through a screen share to go through reviews, and they can't ever read the notes. So, maybe I need to submit a feature request to keep the default to 12 pts OR allow it to be changed globally or in the defaults preferences. 

Thanks again! 

Ahh thanks LaRue for the clarification. There isn't a master way to change it - but I believe the default is font size 9. So it sounds like a feature request is in order. :) 

Odd that this is still not possible to do globally.  It's been in the forums for 3 years now, and I imagine there have been quite a few feature requests.  Really annoying having to go into 150 slides individually to make sure the font is what you want in the notes.

I create my notes in my word processor. When I paste with right-click Source Formatting, they keep the word processor formatting, and it is a lot easier to create, proof and change them.