Hi all! Does anyone know how to turn off the new Text Autofit Improvements that came with the most recent update? I have a project with hundreds of slides that now have the grey bar and I'm on a deadline. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Well in the next update can you make it optional so that it can be turned off. It's a very annoying feature that, in my opinion, was unnecessary. There was nothing wrong with the previous ability to auto-fit the text. Now I am wasting a lot of time fixing text boxes that should not have to be fixed. The fact that it even adds the grey scroll bar for text in buttons is just plain stupid. This may be one of the dumbest updates you guys have ever done.

This is a terrible upgraded causing us HOURS of work to fix. It should 100% have an option to turn it off. My slides were perfect and now I have to go through every single slide to try and get rid of the thousands of scroll bars. This was NOT a benefit!!!

Hi All, I had this same issue (autofit feature being applied in 360, rendering my file Storyline 3-incompatible) and was helped by Darwin at Articulate. He provided some instructions and a walkthrough video. This worked for me. Thought I would post here in case anyone else is experiencing this and needs help:Here are the steps in the workaround:1. Create a copy of the .story file.2. Rename the duplicate file to .zip.3. Extract the file to a folder.4. In that folder, click docProps and then open featureManifest.xml in a text editor, such as Notepad++.5. Remove the following line below:<TextScrolling3 description-2052="?????????" description-1033="Text Autofit Improvements" description-1036="Améliorations de l'ajustement automatique du texte" description-1031="Verbesserte automatische Textfeldanpassung" description-10="Mejoras de ajuste automático de texto" />6. Once you save your changes, select all the contents in the folder and extract them to a new compressed (zipped) folder. 7. Rename the new zip file to .story and open it in an earlier version of Storyline 360.Here’s a video demonstration for reference: https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2F360.articulate.com%2Freview%2Fcontent%2F3f027979-c6ec-4c02-857a-4784c22c2886%2Freview&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7C3f3125bd602e4402168a08da02b528f5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637825274347776429%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=EzfaTtW9iLAuTvGnWqz5YUnvDL81LY5me2msEIcDNmo%3D&amp;reserved=0I hope this helps.

Hi Allan, Thanks for reaching out! To help clarify, any new projects started in Update 52 will automatically use the Text AutoFit Improvements feature. If you open an older project in Update 52, you will have to manually upgrade the text to use this feature. Once you make the switch, you can't turn it off, nor will you be able to revert to a previous version as your file now contains the new Autofit feature. Storyline 360: Upgrade Project Text If your file was created in an older version, can you take advantage of the backup that was created when you made the upgrade?

Totally agree. Our team's projects have been so derailed for this, we're shopping around for another program. Ridiculous.

Text Autofit Improvements: Turn Off? | Articulate

MCostaStienstra
Staff
3 years ago
Hi, Amaia.

Great call opening a support case with our engineers! I see you're working with Carlo, so you're in great hands!

Please reach out through the case if you have additional questions.
- BruceRoberts
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  Is there any update from Carlo on Amaia's/Sean's case please? We've got the same problem...
MCostaStienstra
Staff
3 years ago
Hi, Mofidul.

Thank you for reaching out!

Take a look at the article below for the compatibility between Storyline 3 and Storyline 360:

Compatibility Between Storyline 360 and Storyline 3 Project Files

As Ren mentioned above, starting with update 54 (July 2021), all new and existing projects that haven't upgraded project text will remain with the legacy settings. What this means is that if you create a new file and you don't choose to upgrade the text, you should be able to open it in Storyline 3.

Let me know if this answers your question.
MofidulIslam-d7
Community Member
3 years ago
Maria, thanks a lot for your reply. It is helpful and its a time saver. With much appreciation - Mofid
MCostaStienstra
Staff
3 years ago
Hi, Bruce.

Thank you for opening a support case! I see you're working with Darwin to troubleshoot the issue.

Please reach out through the case if you have additional questions.
soneraltan-09f6
Community Member
3 years ago
This solution is awesome, thanks a lot.
ibrahimmetin-4e
Community Member
3 years ago
Allah senden razı olsun. Çok büyük bir işten kurtardın bizi :)
VictorMadison-3
Community Member
3 years ago
I just updated my Storyline 3 to the latest version. Then I created a project and saved it. When I tried to open in later, I got the message shown in the attachment. WTF!

How can I open this file in Storyline 3?

How do I avoid this issue in the future?
- KimSoonNG-fb5fc
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  I'm facing the same problem after updated my Storyline 3 to the latest version. I can't open my project with the same message pop-up
  
  Urgent! I have the deadline to catch for this project. Please advise and provide a solution.
MichaelKerber
Community Member
3 years ago
I just had the same problem. I've never even had Storyline 360, so I don't know why this is happening. I literally created this file yesterday with Storyline 3, tried to open it back up today on the same computer, and got this error message about text autofit. Now what? I need to finish working on this project!
MCostaStienstra
Staff
3 years ago
Hi, everyone.

We just released the fix for the issue reported where project files wouldn't open after duplicating a text object.

You'll want to update Storyline 3 to ensure you're using Build 3.17.27621.0.

Please let us know if you have any questions by posting here or by reaching out to our Support Engineers directly.
HowiePearson
Community Member
2 years ago
I genuinely think this feature is absolutely brutal. I've wasted hours and hours trying get rid of these bars on several courses but sometimes it's almost impossible.

Trying to find help on this is like a needle in a haystack. Little articles here and there which just seem to confuse things more, going through articles on here saying read this post, go to this thread and read this post.

I've got a meeting in half an hour where I'm going to have to delay the launch of a project because having wasted hours failing to locate the needle in this haystack.

Gone are the days when Articulate used to produce a simple video detailing clearly what you need to do things.
- MicahWeedman-6a
  Community Member
  2 years ago
  If you're using 360, make sure it's updated, and then copy the whole project and past it into a new project; they rolled this back so that the autofit isn't the default anymore. The copy and paste part just clears the inhereted formatting from the current project and starts in a new project where autofit isn't the default.