Storyline 360 Tip: Placeholder Text

One thing that quietly slows down course building is waiting on final content.

You want to design the layout. Test animations. Dial in spacing. Make sure interactions feel right. But the real text is still “coming soon,” so progress either stalls or you start designing around a sentence fragment and a prayer.
Storyline has a better way to fake it responsibly.

In any Storyline 360 text box, try this:

=lorem()

You’ll get placeholder Lorem Ipsum text right away. By default, it inserts 3 paragraphs with 3 sentences each. Enough to see how things really behave without waiting on real copy.

Need to control it? This acts like a function call and takes two optional numbers.

The first number is how many paragraphs you want.
The second is how many sentences per paragraph.

For example:
=lorem(2,5)

That gives you 2 paragraphs with 5 sentences each. Great for stress testing text-heavy slides.

There’s also:

=rand()

This one generates paragraphs of the classic “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” This function takes the same parameters, but defaults to 3 paragraphs of 5 sentences each. Slightly more readable than Latin, slightly more ridiculous, and honestly perfect for layout work.

Why this matters:
• You can keep building without waiting on content
• You can design for real world text length early
• You can focus on interactions and flow first

Check out the attached gif to see this in action.

Small feature. Big time saver.

If you’ve got other Storyline tips that feel almost too small to mention but you use constantly, I want to hear them.