Master slide : Bullets disappears on placeholder text

Hi Adriano,

Slide masters will not keep bullet formatting, and that'll have to be set up on the individual slides themselves. You can always share your thoughts on this in the form of a feature request here. 

There is a great video on this page (about half way down) in regards to how to set up custom bullets using your own characters or shapes. 

Ugh. The whole purpose of a slide master is to enforce a style guide. Setting the style for bullet lists  manually on every slide is a hugely inefficient and error prone.  I don't care about using custom bullets once, I care about enforcing a style guide using slide masters in Storyline 2.  

To make matters worse, if you're importing PowerPoint slides that use PowerPoint slide masters to define your slides' bullet list styles (which, btw, is a default for the text placeholder in PowerPoint), then you lose all bullet list styling in the imported slide text because Storyline 2 doesn't support bullet list styles in Storyline slide masters.

Hi Seth,

I'm sorry to hear you've run into this issue, and currently including bullets as a part of the slide master is considered to be a feature request. You're welcome to also share your thoughts on this issue in the form of a feature request here. 

I've just discovered this issue, too, and agree 100% with Seth. Using bullet points is a pretty basic formatting need and I'm astonished that this feature doesn't already exist in SL2. I'm a nut for consistency and efficiency and, although I don't need bullets on every single slide in my project, it's a major pain to have to format any slide individually--it completely defeats the purpose of having a Master Slide. Also, the Format Painter doesn't seem to work across slides for formatting bullets either!

All that said, I submit feature requests on a regular basis. I'm curious about what the implementation timeline is for adding new features? As I read through these forums, I see posts from as long ago as four years that ask for useful and basic features that are not yet implemented. Just wondering.

Hi Kendra,

Thanks for sharing the thoughts here and submitting the feature request. As far as the timeline for the feature requests, we're unable to share a product roadmap or timeline in regards to new features and/or updates to particular software to resolve bugs or similar. All feature requests go to our product team for review and determination in regards to inclusion in a new update or version. We also do share pertinent threads where features are discussed with our team as well so that they have all the information necessary in terms of what users are asking for, so I appreciate you sharing here.

Adriano and Kendra,

Bullets aren't the only things that aren't carried over from Master slide text placeholders. None of the paragraph or line spacing items are remembered either. (See this thread.) As you said Kendra, it really does defeat the purpose of having a Master slide and it's unbelievable it hasn't been addressed.

Bullets and paragraph/line spacing are a must how can this be?

Hi Sunday,

I can certainly understand the desire for more formatting options within the slide masters, and it's something our team has on their radar as an enhancement to the current Storyline set up. Thanks for reaching out here, and I'll bring it up with our team again. Depending on priority and risk, some features and bugs can be fixed quickly, while others take longer to resolve and implement. Thanks again for sharing here as it's always important to have a sense of the number of customers impacted. 

Agree wholeheartedly with previous posts here regarding the inability to establish bulleted lists within Storyline 2, and most recently Articulate 360, Master Slide layouts. Wasted circa an hour of my time today while at work trying to do this. Only to discover that it cannot be done when I arrived home and accessed this forum (my company blocks access to this forum - I have since requested access). To have to establish these lists in a current slide and copy/paste to another is not an ideal solution, but it is a workaround none the less. Hopefully your development team can incorporate within your next update.

I am also trying to differentiate paragraphs without entering a extra return at the end of the paragraph. If i enter an SPACE below of 12 points, the format painter does not memorize and copy that feature. So it has to be entered for each paragraph.