This chapter covered the basic formatting tasks and expanded our course with new slides and scenes. If you have used PowerPoint in the past, you may have noticed how similar Storyline is; a lot of its basic features work just like they do in Microsoft Office.

It's always good practice to save your work often. With Storyline you can also preview your work frequently to make sure that animations, object placement, and formatting styles look and behave the way you expect. The Preview function in Storyline is speedy and it's an amazing timesaver; checking as you go makes for fewer changes at the end.

You're already discovering how much you can do in Storyline without being a designer or developer. It takes a lot less effort to make an e-learning course look good and even less to make it interactive. Just remember to keep your work simple and focus on how to use the tool to best educate those who will be taking your courses. In the next chapter we'll explore how to add interactivity to a story.