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Will_Findlay
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8 years ago

Text boxes "forget" their right margins

One nagging issue I've had since Storyline 1 is that sometimes text boxes on a slide "forget" the right margin of the box, and they expand  to the width of the longest sentence in the box. I have to...
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JenniferRobi778
Community Member
7 years ago

You are welcome, Will! It may be that or just the standard option via your Masterslides and/or Storyline. I know I have opened customers' courses before for editing and review and have seen theirs with the same Resize shape to fit text option selected and I don't believe they did it on purpose. So, it may be the standard setting for Storyline. 

I am glad I could help! I know that was frustrating for so long. 

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Will_Findlay
Community Member
7 years ago

As I'm going through my course now I'm noticing that sometimes the textbox with this setting (resize shape to fit text) expands when I open the file and slide, and sometimes it does not. So that might have been part of what threw me.

At first I thought the ones that did not expand must have "soft returns"/linebreaks added that made them avoid expanding the bounding box, but mysteriously that wasn't why some expanded and some did not.