Guide · Text Fixes
How to fix the wording in a Storyline course without Storyline
Typos, an outdated term, a sentence the SME wants reworded. Here is how a reviewer changes the text from the .story file and gets every fix into the course in one import.
The usual way
The reviewer marks up a PDF, a Word export or Review 360 comments. The developer opens Storyline and retypes every change, one text box at a time, often on layers that take a few clicks to reach.
A second round then checks that each change was typed correctly. On a long course that is hours of retyping, and every retyped line is a chance for a new typo.
How Storyline takes text back
Storyline already has a way to bring text into a course: its translation import (File → Localization → XLIFF/Word Translation → Import). It is built for translations, and it works for fixes too. It replaces the text of each text box the file names, matched by the text box's own ID. A file that holds only your fixes changes those lines and nothing else.
Do it in StoryAudit
Open Text Fixes and drop the course's .story file. No Storyline, no install, no export step, and the file never leaves your computer.
- Every line of text, grouped under its slide, layer and quiz question.
- Click a line, fix the wording and save. Bold, italics, colors and bullets stay as they are.
- Variables like %UserName% are checked on save, so a fix can't drop or break one.
- Search every line to find a term you want to change everywhere it appears.
- Undo any fix. Your fixes stay in this browser until you download them, so a reload doesn't lose your work.
- Download one fixes file (.xlf) with only what changed, and print a before-and-after list for sign-off.
Fix a line on the bundled sample course and download the file, or fix 3 lines of your own course. No signup.
Try it on a sample course →What you can change
- On-slide text, on the base layer and every other layer.
- Quiz questions, answer choices and the Correct and Incorrect feedback.
- Button labels.
- Slide names, scene names and image alt text. They're listed under "Show slide names and hidden lines".
- The course title shown in the player.
The menu's entry titles are the one thing left out. Storyline builds them from slide numbers and slide titles, so fixing the slide name normally covers the menu. Formatting and layout stay as they are: Text Fixes changes wording only.
Already have an XLIFF export from Storyline? Text Fixes takes that too. Add the .story alongside it to group the lines by slide.
For the developer
- 1. Save a copy of the project.
- 2. Choose File → Localization → XLIFF/Word Translation → Import, and pick the fixes file.
- 3. Run Compare on the original and the copy to confirm only the fixed lines changed, then publish.
Import into the course the .story came from. A later save of it works too, because each fix is matched to its text box, not to its position. A text box that was deleted and rebuilt since won't pick up its fix.
Tested in Storyline: the import applied exactly the lines in the file and left the rest of the course as it was.
See it on a real 51-slide course. No signup, nothing uploads.
Try it on a sample course →Start free trial →