New in Storyline 360: Text Autofit Enhancements

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for taking the time to share how the new Text Autofit Improvements have affected your work. We hear you, and we want to apologize for the frustrations and re-work this has caused!

We introduced this feature as part of our continued focus on designing accessible courses. This means you’re building a course that’s better for everyone, and this feature brings new, better ways of doing that.

When a project is upgraded to use text autofit enhancements, unexpected scroll bars sometimes appear. These scrollbars are due to text areas having extra lines, text, or other elements that overflow the bounds or margins of the shape.

We’re investigating these issues and will update everyone as we have news to share. In the meantime, here are some helpful tips to avoid these unwanted scroll bars:

• Remove blank lines at the end of the text box: Check that the end of your text is indeed the end; otherwise, Storyline will assume that an extra line needs to be read, and a scroll bar will appear.
• Remove extra margin space in the text within shapes: Extra margin space can cause text to overflow the bounds of the shape. Remove that extra margin space by right-clicking on the shape and formatting the Text Box to remove unnecessary margins.

If you run into any other snags, please let us know. You can connect with our Support Team here.