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Resetting story view slide titles to what is in the text box
Hi, using Articulate 360, current software (Oct 7, 22). On a new presentation, the slide title in Story View or when in editing the slide is what is in the first "Text Box" which is great. If you manually rename the slide, it becomes the new name, which is logical.
Is there a way to "Undo" or reset that? We have a group of stories and I would like the upper most text box on the slide to be the same as the slide title, but cannot seem to find a way to reset it.
Copied, pasted new text box, reset slide, tried different master slides, looked at all the properties that I could think of, search here, nothing seems to answer what I am trying to do.
Thanks
The slide title that appears in STORYVIEW, under the thumbnails in the Scenes panel, and in the built-in Menu comes from the Title text box.
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- What you enter in the Title text box will appear as the slide title.
- If the slide layout doesn't include a Title text box, the slide title must be entered manually.
- If you click into the slide title and change that manually, that will break the link between the Title text box and the slide title. The text would then need to be revised in both places. If you want to re-establish that link, do this:
- Manually enter "Untitled Slide" as the slide title. Be sure to enter it exactly like that, with the same capitalization. (That should work. If not, try restarting the program and redoing that.)
- Or you could insert a new slide with the same layout, and then copy the text from the original slide into the new slide.
Tip: In the Slide Master, you can have a Title placeholder off the slide. This lets you easily enter the title during development.
That was the answer I was looking for, and what I was afraid of. Thank you very much for your time and effort in generating the response. I like the idea of title off the page view.
Hi again, Dale,
I remember Dave Anderson showing that you could reconnect the slide title with the Title text box by typing "Untitled Slide" as the slide title. That didn't seem to be working for me yesterday, so I thought the functionality might have gone away. But it worked for me today. (I suppose I might have mistyped it...)
Anyway, give that a try.
FYI: I also added that info to my initial comment so it's more visible to those who might find this post.
Judy Nollet
Manually enter "Untitled Slide" as the slide title.
Thank you for this tip!
JudyNollet- can you nominate a text box as a title text box? I have imported a project from PowerPoint where all titles were typed in as per the PowerPoint template. However, only some have been picked up when I imported to StoryLine and apply my template.
Sorry, but I don't know of any way to change a standard text box into a title text box.
You could try reapplying your layout that includes a title text box. However, I can't say whether or not that will work.
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Hello, it does look like Untitled Slide will indeed reconnect the slide title with the Title text box, at least it did today for me.
Thank you again, sorry for the late response
