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Lost Text Animations by Paragraph After Translation
I just translated a Storyline 360 course into Spanish using the Word doc import. Nearly every slide has an animated text box with the setting "By Paragraph" so that each bullet point is timed with the audio narration. After translation, that menu option is gone and all the text comes in at once with no way to adjust it. I've tried several things to fix it (turning all the bullets off and on again, removing and re-adding the line breaks, etc.), but nothing gives me that option again on the Animations menu, Effect Options (Entrance Animations) menu. Never had this problem before with translations. Any ideas?
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Hi David_LeFevre! This can happen after importing translations from the Word export.
Sometimes Storyline converts bullets into line breaks instead of true paragraphs, so it treats the text as one block and the Effect Options > By Paragraph setting disappears.
I’d recommend trying this:
• Toggle bullets off and back on with Storyline’s bullet tool
• Check for Shift+Enter (soft returns) and replace them with Enter
• Cut and paste the text back into the same text box
• If needed, paste the text into a new text box and reapply the animationOnce Storyline recognizes each line as a separate paragraph again, the By Paragraph option should return.
I was hoping for a solution that would not require manual editing in Storyline, especially because I don't speak Spanish so resetting all the bullets to match the audio will be very challenging (I also need to do this for other languages that I do not speak, compounding the challenge). My project has about 45 slides with bulleted text boxes with several items, each of which is timed to the audio narration. Since importing the translation document breaks all the animation timing (resets everything to the start of the slide), that's a lot of Storyline work to fix something that shouldn't have changed. Is there anything that can be done in the Word doc itself that will make it so the import doesn't mess up all the animation?
