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In Storyline can you globally change the font in Notes tabs only?
Hi! Apologies if this is answered elsewhere in the forum, but I couldn't find it and was spending too much time looking. In Storyline, is it possible to globally change the font in all my slides' Notes tab without changing what's on the body of the slides themselves? I imported a PPT file and based on forum tutorials, I knew my fonts might come in a bit wonky--which they did. I'm just hoping there's a quick an easy way of cleaning them up rather than going to each Notes tab of each slide individually for each of my three modules.
Does creating a Theme include the ability to specify the font/sizing for the Notes tab? I didn't see the Notes tab mentioned in the Theme instructions, but maybe I missed that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Hello all!
Good news! In Storyline 360 (Build 3.85.31840.0), you can now instantly update the formatting of all slide notes in your project.
From here, all you need to do is update Storyline 360 in your Articulate 360 desktop app!
If you run into any issues, please don't hesitate to reach out to our Support team in a support case.
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Hello Corey,
If you want to keep it at the default, the font would be Open Sans. I am not sure the exact size in the Player, as it cannot be changed, but you could test a few sizes to see which looks closest. The default font in Storyline would be Open Sans 12.
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Thanks, Emily. I messed around with Open Sans, Open Sans Semibold, and Articulate fonts today to see which one matched closest in the Notes. None of them looked 100% exact to me, so I think it really comes down to personal preference. We'll see!
PS - Didn't realize my whole email signature was going to appear earlier. Thanks for the tip!
Good luck with the project Corey!
I am sure something will work out. And no problem about the email signature.
Has the feature request to change the font and font size of the Notes globally been developed?
Hi Sandie,
There is not a feature for changing the notes font globally, although in Storyline 2 you now can adjust the overall player font (except the notes).
Hi Jay!
Looks like I just responded to a similar post here.
Has a global format for Notes been included in 360?
Hi Andrew,
In Storyline 360, you have the option to format notes just like slide text in Storyline using the font and paragraph options on the Home tab, including:
- Font face
- Font size
- Bold
- Italic
- Underline
- Font color
- Bullets
- Numbering
- Alignment
You can also globally set the font face of Notes via the Player Settings. Whatever font you select as a Player Font will be also applied to slide notes, unless you change the font at the slide-level.
I hope that helps!
What I am still looking for, and do not see 5+ years later now in Storyline 360, is this: the ability to go to a single place and globally format my Notes text across all my slides in a Storyline file. I know I can manually format a single Note's text using the ribbon, and that I can change the overall Player font (but not size!) within the Player options (apparently only if the font in the Notes is still Articulate's default?). But when I import from a PPT file, for example, text in the Notes can come in the wrong font, wrong size, etc. I want to be able to clean up the formatting of all my Notes--including the font size (because the default of 9 point is tiny!)--from one place. If there was simply a place in Preferences somewhere to set my Notes font, size, and color, (for example: Arial 12pt white) that would be such an enormous timesaver. I guess I'll submit that as a feature request again.
Hi Andrew,
The Notes are still treated as a separate and distinct element for each slide, you can now change the font size and font of the overall player as detailed here for Storyline 3 and Storyline 360.
I certainly understand the request to change the overall slide notes, so thanks for submitting the feature request! Here's a bit more detail on how we handle Feature requests and what becomes a feature!
I would also really like to see an option to globally set font text/size of notes. Everytime I cut and paste it seems to default to different sizes regardless of the source. I also submitted a request. I agree with Andrew, it would be an ENORMOUS time saver
