Articulate Storyline: The Cure for Overlapping Notes

by Kal Hadi View our profile on LinkedIn
 
When enabling player notes in published Storyline projects, you might end up with overlapping text. This can happen if your slide titles are long (requiring three lines at the top of the notes pane in the player).
 
Overlapping text 
 
Unless you plan on adding extra white space below the title or above the script in the notes panel, you will need to shorten the slide titles to a take up a maximum of two lines. (Note that adding extra space should be done with paragraph "Space Before" or "Space After" otherwise consistency is going to be a problem.) 

Another issue that you will likely run into with overlaps are titles that overlap the separator line as shown below. (Separator lines are on by default via the Player settings.)

Separator line 
 
I am not suggesting that you make the title a single line only, but I've found a way to make the separator line invisible by making it fully transparent. You will find the setting to modify the separator transparency in the Player settings under Custom > Colors & Effects tab. Here's how:

  1. Click Show advanced color editing

  2. From the Edit item menu choose Transcript > Separator

    Hide advanced color editing 
     

  3. Change the Transparency setting to 100%.
     
    Separator color

    Line _ gone

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