Paste in place

Hi Philippe,

There is a keyboard shortcut in Storyline 360 for Ctrl + Shift + D to Paste object in the same place as the original object.

Storyline 3 doesn't have this keyboard shortcut, but a close alternative is Ctrl + D to Duplicate. 

You can read more about the keyboard shortcuts in Storyline 3 here. 

Ok so that is available on SP360, not SL3 which I use, that explains why I can't do it 😉

Someone mentioned already - you kind of get into the habit of pressing the arrow keys on your keyboard when the pasted picture is offset. It's one up, and one left, to remove the 8px on each side of the pasted image. 

I too tried the CTRL-Shift-D route and it did nothing for me in either timeline or stage. Add me to the Paste-in-Place feature.  Me thinks if Captivate can do it, Articulate can do it. Yes?  

Hope you guys get it soon for SL3. :)

I use it every time I'm working on an SL360 project and it works wonderfully.   One of my favorite "little time-saving features."

Hi Agnes and Brian,

Thanks for popping in to share the tips you've recently discovered. I wanted to share some additional shortcuts for you or anyone following along here. I know both of your discoveries are included.

Storyline 360: Using Keyboard Shortcuts

I am trying to copy an icon and a text box from the hover state of one object to the hover state of another object. I have tried all of these tricks with no success. I even tried matching the x and y coordinates. The items are still off! 

I tried adding guide lines but they disappear when trying to adjust them in the states. This has added hours to my development time.

I attached the slide I am working on. I am trying to match the text and icon location from button MW to button HF.

Glenda,

Edit the Hover state on the HF button, select the man icon. On the menu, click Format. The X and Y values now refer to the location of the man icon in relation to the minuscule "+" that you see at the upper left of the gray High Frequency box. That represents the origin of the state.

When I opened the MW and then the HF boxes, I found that the Y values of the man icons differed by 1 pixel. The X values differed by more, but you have to take into consideration the difference in the X positions of the MW and HF boxes. When I did that, the X values of the man icons were off by one or two pixels. Changing the X and Y values of one of the icons lined them up perfectly.

The text boxes were different. I was able to line up the X values, but even with equivalent Y values, they differ by about half a pixel, even after I replaced one with a copy of the other. I finally edited the MW text box, changing its top margin from 5 to 6, and its bottom margin from 5 to 4.

Hi!

I just came here to ask DEV team to please add this feature ("paste in place" shortcut) in next SL3 update : it would save hours of clickings in up and down arrows to position objects where needed.

Have a nice day,

Luciana