Forum Discussion

StephanieCase's avatar
StephanieCase
Community Member
14 years ago
Solved

Problem with Formatting Text Variable

I'm trying to use a text variable in the middle of a sentence but any formatting that I set for the text box does not hold. It reverts to a basic text format (looks like Articulate or Articulate Na...
storyline 360
  • KellyAuner's avatar
    KellyAuner
    3 years ago

    Hi Artur,

    Thanks for reaching out! One workaround you can try is to copy and paste the size of the text variable (e.g. %ch1synop% - left side) to another reference text variable to a larger size to fit the variable values.

    If you have additional questions, please let me know!

Kelly-Anne-Cost's avatar
Kelly-Anne-Cost
Community Member
10 years ago

Thanks, hope they get to it soon, it's important. In the meantime, after fiddling with it today, I was able to get the formatting to stick using these steps:

1. Click into the variable box and type one character
2. Select and format the character so that is displays the way you want the variable result to look in the final presentation (bold, size, color, etc.)
3. Place your cursor just after the formatted character
4. Hit Enter. Your variable box should now have 2 lines
3.Use your mouse (don't backspace)  to place your cursor just after the character (on the first line) and hit the backspace key to delete the character. (The second empty line should remain in the box)
4. Save

I think the app needs the formatting assigned to a character before it will retain the formatting, if that makes sense. So, what I did was provide t a formatted character, add an extra line, then delete that character from the upper line.

Hope I got the steps right. I'm curious to see if this works for anyone else. At any rate, it worked for me while trying to change/retain the formatting for a numeric variable. Hope it helps someone else.

Thanks,
Kelly Anne