Chapter 5. Extending Slide Content

This chapter focuses on a powerful Storyline concept called layers. Layers are useful in organizing and extending the slide's content within a single slide as opposed to spreading content over multiple slides. Layers can help optimize your story by reducing the number of overall slides, making for smaller file sizes and faster publishing times.

In this chapter you will learn:

  • When and why you might use a layer
  • How to create and edit layers
  • How to configure the settings of layers
  • The techniques for displaying and hiding layers
  • To work with built-in interactions that work or complement layers

About layers

If you've used Articulate Studio or PowerPoint previously, you will have noticed that each slide can contain any number ...

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