Storyline: formatting notes font and background

When I select text color white, it turns black in the notes. Seriously!? I have to take a different bit of white text paste it into the notes box and then copy paste "text only" notes right behind it to make it white. What a colossal pain.

Hi Lynn,

I do not have any additional updates outside of what has already been shared here.

Hey Matthew,

Are you experiencing this issue with the dark theme in the modern player as well?

I am having the white on white version of this issue.  Please fix!

Hi Alison,

Thanks for reaching out and letting us know that you've run into this issue as well.

Just to confirm you're seeing what we have reported, you're:

1. Importing slides from PowerPoint with standard black notes.
2. Using the Modern Player with the light theme in Storyline 360.

Ah, well the fact that you're using SL3 is a new detail. With your permission, I'd like to take a look at your project file to investigate what's happening. You can share it publicly here, or send it to me privately by uploading it here. I'll delete it when I'm done troubleshooting.

Thanks for the update, Alison.

That is a feature request that our team is tracking, so I've added this conversation to the report so that we can share any future updates with you here.

Hi all!  I think I found a fix within SL360 that worked globally for me! ☺ I found this thread b/c I was having a similar issue (black background, modern player).  What's more, even the manual fix wasn't working.  I could not change the font white, even with the technique described in this thread.  I could before, but this stopped working on some slides.

After experimenting, I had a eureka moment.  It's weird, but worked for me.  Would one of you who works for SL please test this out on one of your files?  I would appreciate the peace of mind in knowing this works for more than just me.  If not, feel free to delete my post.  No offense taken.

Here's the fix that worked for me today:

1. Click on Player.

2.  Temporarily change your player style to Classic.

2.  Go to Colors and Effects.

3.  Click on the Player font dropdown, as if you were changing it, but you can click on the same font you are using.  (If not, you could always temporarily change your font, save, and then change it back.)

4.  Click OK.

5.  This should have universally changed your font to white.  (I am hoping; it worked for me.)

6.  Now return to Player and change the player style back to Modern (if desired).

Anyone who tried this, please report back.  I hate disseminating false or partial information.  I am pretty busy with several projects and don't have the time to beta test this fix on several files.  I am curious to see if it works for others, on other SL versions, or if the background is white.

Happy Designing!

HI Stephen,
I tried your suggested workaround.... it doesnt work.
Yet another Storyline issue over 2 years old that has not been resolved!!

Hi Kevin,

This feature to globally change the formatting of the Notes text is not on our feature roadmap as we are currently prioritizing other features for upcoming releases.

I do appreciate you following up and will let you know if our plans change!

I have the same issue, I need to change the font colour of the Notes in EVERY slide manually, it is a pain!  Please add this feature, that multiple people have been asking for for 3 years, to your roadmap!