Is there a way to edit font size & color of the notes throughout a project in Storyline 360?

Hi there Aaron!

You can change the default text color for notes in the Player settings. Here's how:

1. Go to the Home tab on the Storyline ribbon and click Player.
2. When the player properties open, click Colors & Effects on the ribbon.
3. Click Show advanced color editing.
4. From the Edit item drop-down, select Editor >> Text.
5. Use the Color selector to choose a theme color or standard color. If you don't see the color you want, use the Eyedropper to match a color from anything visible on your screen or click More Colors to choose a custom color.
6. Click OK to save your player.

You can also change the font size of Player text within the Player settings. The default player font size is 100%, but you can increase that to make the font larger. Just be aware that this will affect the font size of player text, not including the Notes. 

To increase the font size of the Notes text, you'll have to make that change within the Notes panel in Slide View. 

I hope this helps!

Hello Alyssa,

Thank you for your prompt reply. Can you please clarify is this will update all the note on an already-develop project? Meaning, if this will update all the notes that I already have on the project or not.

Thank you!

Hi Aaron!

If you change the font color within the Player settings, it will update all of the notes in your project, including the notes you already created. Let me know if you have any further questions!

I changed the percentage size of the Player Font from 100% to 110% (and also 125%) in the Player in an attempt to increase the size of the text in the Notes tab across the course. While this did update the size of the font on the player and in the Menu, it did not impact the Notes tab. That appears to be staying at a 9pt font size. We've had many people comment that a size of 9 pt is too small to read, which requires us to change the size on each slide from the Home tab.  Is this the expected functionality. I am using Storyline 360.  Thank you!

Hi Lu,

The notes formatting can be changed on a slide by slide basis - you'll see a bit more about that in this tutorial. 

Let us know if you need other help!

Thank you Ashley. I've been aware how to do this on a slide-by-slide basis. But Alyssa had mentioned that this could be done in the Player. Being able to change this at the top level would be very helpful. We'll continue managing this as we have.

Thanks

Lu

I'm so sorry for the confusion, Lu. That was my mistake. Currently all of the notes editing can be done in Slide View on a slide-by-slide basis, but I definitely understand how the ability to make global changes would make life easier. That's a popular request here in ELH, and I'll be glad to bring the idea back up to the team. 🙂

Thanks so much Alyssa!

Well Stephen,

I think you've actually identified a bug. I'm getting this written up and reported to my team.

Seems that post import, you can no longer change the color of the Notes font and it is stuck at black.

I was able to re-create this issue in both SL360 and SL3.

I wanted to share some information on how we define bugs and how we tackle them when they occur.

I'll attach this thread as well so that we can update you when we can.

Thanks for the explanation Stephen!

Thanks Cassandra - and we'll keep you posted on the global notes feature if it's rolled out to Storyline!