Slide Order

I am having the issue that when I change the order of the slides, they retain the same slide number. So if I have decided to move a slide to another position I can get it to stay by a trigger, but when I publish the scene in word it publishes to the original order of the slides, which now means that they are out of order content wise but they are nuberically sequential Since once a slide has a number no matter where you move it, the slide retains that number.  When you look at it, the slides appear out of order.

Absolutely frustrated.

Hi Dava,

Are you seeing this in the menu of your course? You could look at removing the number or reset the menu from the story as described here. 

This thread was from 4 years ago... has anything happened to the idea of a slide sorter inside a scene ? I would love that also! No matter how much i chop material in smaller scenes, when they get past a few dozen it is hard to reorganize them !

Hi Philippe,

Thanks for checking in! No changes to this set up yet, but we'll keep you posted if there are any developments! 

Plus one from here - another year later! 

Slide ordering still seems chaotic and without any reliable system.

Just trying to keep this one up near the top - another year later, still an issue :(

I have a hard time reordering slides, and like others reported, once they were moved, they weren't renumbering. It got so bad in one, I had to revert back to an older version and lost hours of work.

Just confirming that this is still an issue. Slides are moving around endlessly as soon as I have a branching menu, with or without triggers. It's really driving me nuts. I have decided to try using new scenes instead of branching within the same scene. I am figuring that this will help.

I used to have a lot of problems with this, until I learned three secrets:

#1. Story view has no connection to slide order not the menu. I merely attempts to show the flow of the slides. It does this by trying to put a slide under the slide that is previous to it. But previous is not defined by number, or the order I create them, or how I want them to be. It is defined only by the trigger that jumps to this slide. The triggers control everything, slide order, menu (unless you modify it), and program flow.

#2.I work on a slide, and when I want to work on another one, I click on its icon in story view. I found that if there is the slightest twitch of the mouse when I click, the slide is moved to another location. This is more pronounced the smaller the thumbnails are.   I learned that if I used "jump to slide name" triggers, instead of "jump to Next Slide" triggers, that problem went away entirely. I saved so much time, not having slides moving around and having to hunt for them.

#3. There is a secret to renumbering slides. The attached video shows it, but it only works if you use "jump to slide name" triggers. The little blue arrow is the secret. In the video notice that the slides do not change position or name, only numbers. It would have worked exactly the same if I had moved the original #3 (up or down), instead of #2. REMEMBER: This only works if you use "jump to name". Otherwise, the slides will be re-ordered.

I have saved so much time by not having to look for moving slides. It is certainly worth the minuscule amount of time I spend in the trigger wizard choosing Slide 1.2 rather than next slide.