"Hi Wendy, Yeah, that's Storyline's unfortunate habit of extending the effective size of a button's hotspot to encompass the surface area..."

"You also might try setting the slide with the 6 layers to "Reset to Initial State" when revisiting if you haven't already. Cheers!     ..."

"Forgot to say I'm using Storyline 360."

"I'm also experiencing trouble with the disabled state. The Continue button begins in the disabled state and triggers change it to the ..."

"OK, I'll stop after this! Cognitive Load Split Attention Cheers!     -Ray"

"I forgot to add: Spaced practice Massed practice (Ebbinghaus's) Forgetting curve Retrieval (as in retrieving from memory to help en..."

"Some terms that cut right to the heart of our industry might include: Infodump Performance-oriented training Awareness training Blo..."

"I've gone back and forth in my career so far: a few years as an employee, a few years as a freelancer, rinse and repeat, back and forth s..."

"I don't know of any templates, but wanted to thank you for bringing The Good, The Bad, and The Accountant to my attention. It looks reall..."

"Another possibility: Maybe a rectangle shape over the whole slide, with solid fill and transparency set to 100%, near the bottom of the t..."

"OK, the pop-up layer approach works. Thanks! Cheers!     -Ray"

"Thanks Tom. Storyline allowed me to change the text direction on the text entry field, but as you said, it doesn't actually rotate it whe..."

"Perfect! Thanks Wendy!!!     -Ray"

"Hi Garth, wow! I've never encountered two buttons named the same thing on the same screen, but I have come across screens that have both ..."

"I don't quite have the technical know-how to fully use this information, but I am passing it along in case you do. The *.story file is a..."

"I've found that to distinguish between problems that can be solved via training and those that cannot, it's helpful to have a model you c..."

"I agree with a lot of Jackie's advice. For all instructional writing (not just closed captions) I favor the following conventions: Ref..."

"The problem as I understand it is that the Apple OS does not allow the plug-in architecture that products such as iSpring, Articulate Pre..."

"I always come back to: what is the "ask"? That is, what is your sales team asking people to do with these reports? Under what circumstanc..."

"Amanda, I think it's helpful to distinguish between interactivity that is fundamentally oriented to presenting information and interactiv..."

"I think of a checklist as a job aid. I am going to use the checklist to help me remember what to do on the job, right? In that case, sinc..."

"You mentioned "Active Shooter" as a topic. One of the more compelling training videos I've seen is the FBI's "Run. Hide. Fight" video on ..."

"I have found that often when someone doesn't see the value of a particular design element, it is because he or she hasn't seen examples o..."

"You can create the shape once, then right click it and choose Set as Default Shape. From then on, any rectangles you create will be red, ..."

"Renee, I feel your pain. It was actually Matthew who gave a number-of-triggers estimate, not me. But that number got me curious about my ..."