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NOTES BACKGROUND IS BLACK
Hello, I've a problem with Storyline 360: I prepared a sequence of slides in PowerPoint with the text copied in the PowerPoint notes area.
When I import the PowerPoint file in Storyline 360 the Storyline notes field has a black background with the text that is inside but not readable.
Can anybody help me?
Thanks in advance
Alessandro
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Hi Alessandro
The background is likely black if you have the modern player activated in your Player Settings. You can change the modern player to the "light" theme or the whole player back to "Classic" in here if you wish.
If you keep the modern player in the dark theme you can change the colour of the text in the notes panel simply by highlighting it and changing the font colour on the Home tab.
Helen
Has anyone run into an issue where the color and font changes? I have reopened a file to edit and the notes were white font and white background. Even though when I added the text it was black with a white background.
Totally awesome! Thank you!
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That's right! The problem has been solved.
Last day I "joked" with the player choices: so the player remained selected on Modern.
Thanks a lot.
Alessandro
Why does it have to be one or the other? Can Articulate program a choice of which background in notes? I don't enjoy the black background but want to use the modern player.
Hi Chris,
If you'd like to use the Modern Player along with a white notes background, try using the Light theme.
If you'd like to see additional color options in the Modern Player, let us know in a feature request here!
Before i recognised the cause, I had changed all of my notes to white colour. Then, of course, when I changed back to the light theme all of my notes were unreadable and I am having to convert them all back to black!
Is there any way to change the font colour for all notes in one go?
Hi Sam,
While there isn't an "all in one" option, a technique you might find quicker is to export the course to a word doc using the translation feature and reformat the text in there. You still have to edit each set of notes but I often think it's quicker in the table format than going slide-to-slide, particularly if all the text in your course is ending up the same colour: you can just highlight a table column and edit it all.
Helen
Duh! Obvious solution. Thanks for reminding me Helen.
Experiencing black on black text with the modern template too. The glossary automatically converted to white on black when modern template was selected. Why can't the notes do this as well? Having to change the color slide-by-slide or exporting for translation is tedious and unnecessary. When will there be a fix for this?
Why isn't there an option to change the font COLOR if you can change the font and font size? That's illogical and a huge waste of time. Why make things harder than they need to be?
Hi Tyler and Ashley,
So sorry you're running into this, and your idea for a notes font color setting in the player properties would make life easier! I'll share that idea with our team.
In the meantime, we'll keep you posted on our progress with this bug. I don't have an ETA for a fix at this time, but if that changes, we'll let you know!
So sorry you're seeing that, Melanie! I know that's a scary feeling when you find some changes did not keep after saving your work.
Let's narrow down why this color and font flip is happening:
- Is the file saved to your local hard drive?
- Does this happen with all Storyline files, or just this particular one? If it's a specific project, could you share it with us here so we can have a close look?
