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When you are creating articles, you may need to document a flow that has a number of separate steps, but the steps themselves are not big enough to justify creating their own article, but they may be big enough to cover more than one cell within the storyboard. If that’s the case then you can use the Subtitle placeholder to break up your article into smaller steps. In this quick walkthrough we will show you how you can take advantage of this feature and also how to turn on step numbering as well to make the presentation even easier to follow
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- 1. In this quick walkthrough we will show you how you can take advantage of the Subtitle placeholders within the Author Tools template show subsections of walkthroughs and also how to to turn on step numbering as well to make the presentation even easier to follow Adding Step Subtitles to Presentations within Author Tools Murray Fife AUTHOR TOOLS TIPS & TRICKS
- 2. www.dynamicsaxcompanions.com © 2016 Blind Squirrel Publishing, LLC , All Rights Reserved When you are creating articles, you may need to document a flow that has a number of separate steps, but the steps themselves are not big enough to justify creating their own article, but they may be big enough to cover more than one cell within the storyboard. If that’s the case then you can use the Subtitle placeholder to break up your article into smaller steps. In this quick walkthrough we will show you how you can take advantage of this feature and also how to turn on step numbering as well to make the presentation even easier to follow Introduction AUTHOR TOOLS TIPS & TRICKS
- 3. Author Tools 1.1.0.12 © Blind SquirrelPublishing, LLC, All Rights Reserved Adding Step Subtitles to Presentations within Author Tools Step 1: Creating a Step with no Subtitle To start off let’s take a look at what happens if we don’t specify any subtitles within the storyboard. In this example we have created a new storyboard and have a number of steps that we have documented within the flow. We have left the Subtitle (the placeholder underneath the main slide title) blank. Now we will just click on the Create Presentation button and see what this created.
- 4. Author Tools 1.1.0.12 © Blind SquirrelPublishing, LLC, All Rights Reserved Adding Step Subtitles to Presentations within Author Tools Step 1: Creating a Step with no Subtitle When the presentation is built for us, the Subtitle placeholder is not populated in the presentation.
- 5. Author Tools 1.1.0.12 © Blind SquirrelPublishing, LLC, All Rights Reserved Adding Step Subtitles to Presentations within Author Tools Step 2: Creating Steps with Subtitles If we return back to the storyboard and add in a Subtitle then we will be able to rebuild the presentation.
- 6. Author Tools 1.1.0.12 © Blind SquirrelPublishing, LLC, All Rights Reserved Adding Step Subtitles to Presentations within Author Tools Step 2: Creating Steps with Subtitles This time, the Subtitle shows up within the presentation that we create. This step description will repeat on each subsequent slide until either a new structure slide (Chapter, Section, Article etc.) is found, or until a slide is added that has a new Subtitle added to it. You don’t need to repeat the title on every subsequent slide within the Storyboard.
- 7. Author Tools 1.1.0.12 © Blind SquirrelPublishing, LLC, All Rights Reserved Adding Step Subtitles to Presentations within Author Tools Step 3: Adding Step Numbers There is one additional feature that we can take advantage of here, and that is to turn on the Step Numbering feature within the Publish ribbon bar within the Steps option group.
- 8. Author Tools 1.1.0.12 © Blind SquirrelPublishing, LLC, All Rights Reserved Adding Step Subtitles to Presentations within Author Tools Step 3: Adding Step Numbers When we rebuild the presentation it will now have a Step and step number before the subtitle. Also each time a new Subtitle is encountered then the step number is incremented. If a new structure slide (Chapter, Section, Article etc.) is found then it will reset the step number back to 1 and start the process over again.
- 9. www.dynamicsaxcompanions.com © 2016 Blind Squirrel Publishing, LLC , All Rights Reserved Using the Subtitle to add additional structure to walkthroughs are a great way to break up your presentations, and also adding in the step numbers give you an easy way to reference where you are in the process. How clever is that? Summary AUTHOR TOOLS TIPS & TRICKS
- 10. Created with Author Tools Write smarter, not harder Author Tools 1.1.0.12 © Blind Squirrel Publishing, LLC, All Rights Reserved
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- In this quick walkthrough we will show you how you can take advantage of the Subtitle placeholders within the Author Tools template show subsections of walkthroughs and also how to to turn on step numbering as well to make the presentation even easier to follow
- When you are creating articles, you may need to document a flow that has a number of separate steps, but the steps themselves are not big enough to justify creating their own article, but they may be big enough to cover more than one cell within the storyboard. If that’s the case then you can use the Subtitle placeholder to break up your article into smaller steps. In this quick walkthrough we will show you how you can take advantage of this feature and also how to turn on step numbering as well to make the presentation even easier to follow
- To start off let’s take a look at what happens if we don’t specify any subtitles within the storyboard. In this example we have created a new storyboard and have a number of steps that we have documented within the flow. We have left the Subtitle (the placeholder underneath the main slide title) blank. Now we will just click on the Create Presentation button and see what this created.
- When the presentation is built for us, the Subtitle placeholder is not populated in the presentation.
- If we return back to the storyboard and add in a Subtitle then we will be able to rebuild the presentation.
- This time, the Subtitle shows up within the presentation that we create. This step description will repeat on each subsequent slide until either a new structure slide (Chapter, Section, Article etc.) is found, or until a slide is added that has a new Subtitle added to it. You don’t need to repeat the title on every subsequent slide within the Storyboard.
- There is one additional feature that we can take advantage of here, and that is to turn on the Step Numbering feature within the Publish ribbon bar within the Steps option group.
- When we rebuild the presentation it will now have a Step and step number before the subtitle. Also each time a new Subtitle is encountered then the step number is incremented. If a new structure slide (Chapter, Section, Article etc.) is found then it will reset the step number back to 1 and start the process over again.
- Using the Subtitle to add additional structure to walkthroughs are a great way to break up your presentations, and also adding in the step numbers give you an easy way to reference where you are in the process. How clever is that?