Hi - I need to use a particular bullet point format on each slide, where I need to select square bullets and a particular colour. This is easy enough to do, but involves a few mouse clicks and I need to do it A LOT, so ideally I'd like to find a way to save the formatting. Unfortunately I can't see any way to do this (I tried adding it to the slide master view, but it didn't work.) Does anyone have any tips on how this can be done?

I realize that this thread is 4 years old. Unfortunately, in the last 4 years, the developers have ignored this issue and have not added any way to apply bullet point formatting other than manually for each and every bullet point on each and every slide. In the December 2020 update they added the ability to create text styles, but did not include bullet points, so even that is a DUD feature. Let's recap expected features for bullet points that do not exist, but have been asked for and discussed for YEARS: Format painter - only paints information about the font itself (font type and color), paints triggers too, but not anything related to the paragraph settings (spacings before/after, bullet point formatting, etc.) Slide master - only stores font related information, triggers, and layouts, but only when adding a new slide, does not reliably allow resetting an existing slide if changes are made, does not store or bullet point formatting Styles - only stores font type, color, and size, but not bullet points or spacing information Additionally, there is no way to create a heirarchy of slide bullet levels with different formatting. If you want automatic bullet points you are stuck with the simple round black dot. IMHO, this is a major fail.

ChrisCole Yes and no. From what I understood when reading this thread, and from my own experience, I want to setup the slide masters and on those masters, specify a bullet point style (colour, size, specific bullet shape/symbol to use as the bullet) and have that be saved into the created template. That way, whenever I click the bullet point or numbered list button, it uses the style as I defined in the slide master as the default. Your idea seems to suggest I'd setup a bullet point style, and every time I want to use that, I'd have to go into the bullet options and choose the style. Now if your suggestion was to work in tandem with the slide master, that would actually be pretty neat. Then we could have multiple styles saved for use within a given project, more easily selecting alternate styles as we deem necessary. Yet, still have a defined default style that we had initially setup within the slide master template. Kind regards, Sam (edited for clarity)

I too am looking for this feature. My imported slides are using custom symbol bullets which is part of our company template. Upon import, those symbols are reverted to basic black dots of varying sizes. It's painstaking to change every slide to the appropriate bullet symbols and colors. I don't understand why this isn't a feature?

Bumping the thread as this should be a basic feature when setting master slides. Can do it in MS Office, and free alternatives, why not in Storyline?

Bumping for visibility. I would rather have a template remember my bullet preferences than have to format it on every single slide I create. This seems like a fairly simple quality of life request.

Saving Bullet Point Formatting in Storyline

23 Replies

EllenSperry-e30
Community Member
23 days ago
It would be great if we could create layouts with bullet points, paragraph spacing etc. just like we can in ppt and then apply the layout to the slide we are working on.
ChrisCole
Community Member
2 months ago
For the staff.... Here is what everyone is looking for (I think) ...
- SamBarnard-98a4
  Community Member
  2 months ago
  ChrisCole
  
  Yes and no.
  
  From what I understood when reading this thread, and from my own experience, I want to setup the slide masters and on those masters, specify a bullet point style (colour, size, specific bullet shape/symbol to use as the bullet) and have that be saved into the created template. That way, whenever I click the bullet point or numbered list button, it uses the style as I defined in the slide master as the default.
  
  Your idea seems to suggest I'd setup a bullet point style, and every time I want to use that, I'd have to go into the bullet options and choose the style. Now if your suggestion was to work in tandem with the slide master, that would actually be pretty neat. Then we could have multiple styles saved for use within a given project, more easily selecting alternate styles as we deem necessary. Yet, still have a defined default style that we had initially setup within the slide master template.
  
  Kind regards,
  
  Sam
  
  (edited for clarity)
  - ChrisCole
    Community Member
    24 days ago
    Hi Sam. Yeah - they should work in tandem. Add the ability to define custom bullet styles is the baseline part. Add the ability to use a custom bullet style in the Master.
    
    Then the user can create unlimited custom bullet styles as desired, set a default custom bullet style in the Master, and override the Master custom bullet style at the slide level using other bullet styles as needed.
KhoaHa-6d302a90
Community Member
11 months ago
Would love an update on this, changing bullets slide by slide is very annoying.
- StevenBenassi
  Staff
  11 months ago
  Hi Sydney!
  
  Thanks for checking in on this!
  
  I don't have any updates to share at this time as our development team prioritizes other features. Not to worry! I've included your voice in the feature report so we can notify you if it makes it onto our Feature Roadmap.
CarolSimpson-d1
Community Member
12 months ago
I am new to Storyline and am appalled that bullets are such an issue. The amount of lost productivity over a feature that is Formatting 101 and missing in Storyline is inexcusable.
StuartBlack-32e
Community Member
12 months ago
Yeah, I have faffed around with this issue for some time and just had another look on the forums to see if there is a fix. Pretty poor that it's still there
GaryMills-ccfef
Community Member
2 years ago
Really?? 7 years and your team can't come up with a fix for this. It is one of the most annoying things about using Storyline
PankajSrivas257
Community Member
2 years ago
Any update on this? Selecting bullet setting/style for ever instance is annoying.
GaryMills-ccfef
Community Member
3 years ago
This is so annoying - every, single time I create a bullet list I have to change bullet colour - why can't this simply be part of the Master or in Styles. Honestly it is a basic thing, why is it taking forever.
KellyAuner
Staff
3 years ago
Hi Anne,

Thanks for reaching out and sharing your comments on this feature. We'll be sure to update this discussion if this feature makes it on our feature roadmap!
AnneCarlsen-760
Community Member
3 years ago
Bumping for visibility. I would rather have a template remember my bullet preferences than have to format it on every single slide I create. This seems like a fairly simple quality of life request.