Storyline 360 Pros — What’s Your Favorite “Hidden Gem”? 💎

Animating Bullet Lists

Do you create separate text boxes for each line of text in a bullet or numbered list when you need to time the animation with the narration? There is a better way!

Use a single text box. Select the text box, in the animation tab, select the entrance animation. Next, select the Effect Options drop down and select Paragraph. This will allow you to expand the text box on the timeline and control each individual line of text. If you've added cue points to your timeline using Jesse Taber's hidden gem, you can grab each line and drag it to align it with the cue point. Bonus gem: Creating your bullet or numbered lists in one text box instead of separate text boxes improves your course accessibility. Further, this technique can be applied to text boxes that are not formatted as bullet or numbered lists.