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Trouble when copy pasting slides from one story to another...
When I copy paste slides from one storyline to another, all the pictures are missing. Though the image is missing, I can see the rectangle frame for each pic. I tried both source formatting and destination formatting option.
Should I manually replace and time every image now? Or is there an easy work around?
Thanks a lot for helping me out!
- DanielDavidCommunity Member
Hi Poornima,
I had the same problems. The quickest way to solve this without deleting and re-inserting all your characters is if you highlight the character through timeline and through design you re-select the character you used before. This way you don't have to re-position, re-size and re-time the characters.
Hope this helps.
- EmilyDCommunity Member
Hi Poornima, I am experiencing the exact same problem, did you ever find a soliution?
Thanks!
- PeterAndersonFormer Staff
Hi Emily,
If you'd like, we'd be happy to take a closer look at what's going on. Please submit a case, including your .story file, using the link below so our support team can assist you further:
http://www.articulate.com/support/contact/submit.php
Thanks!
- MelanieGregory1Community Member
Has this issue every been resolved? I'm having the same problem.
- HarriCCommunity Member
Hi Guys,
We've had quite a few issues with copying and pasting from one SL file into another (missing images/triggers disappearing etc) the best way around this that we've found so far is to use the 'import' feature instead of copy and paste. This appears to be far more stable.
Hope this helps.
Harri
- ChristineHendriFormer Staff
Hi Melanie,
Harri is so right on this! (Thanks, Harri!)
If you haven't already tried it, please make sure you're importing slides into new projects, rather than copying and pasting the content.
Here's how:
Importing from Another Storyline Project
Thanks!
- timdeegan1Community Member
Thanks Harri, not quite as handy as copy and pasting elements from one project slide to another (which I can do from Powerpoint to SL well enough) but a nice workaround. Perhaps a suggestion future version fix?
Hi Tim! We take those suggestions in the form of feature requests, and you can always submit those here. Thanks so much and have a great day!
- MariannTothCommunity Member
hello there,
we had the same problem. I found the solution in my case: the story file name contained special characters (letters from hungarian alphabet) I've renamed the storyfiled, problem solved.
I hope it helps,
Mariann
Thanks Mariann for sharing that solution here - and just for anyone else who comes cross the thread I wanted to point to this article which references not using special characters, accented characters, or symbols in your file name or path.