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StephanieCase
Community Member
14 years ago
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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...
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  • 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!

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AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
9 years ago

Hi Marilu,

Thanks for sharing some more detail with us here! Are you seeing this when you test in the preview of your course or when users actually take a look at the published output? We're not able to update the variable reference (the area where we're showing what a user typed in) dynamically so if they type more than you left space for the text will shrink automatically to ensure we're displaying all the text there. If you used a custom font when creating the course and it's not a standard/system font for that user - we're going to default to a system font and so again things may look different. Since we're relying on the users system and settings, we've got to use their fonts for those things as well because we can't embed them.

Hope that helps clarify and if you're still needing help  just let us know!