Bullets within a Text object can be displayed in one of two ways:
As one block – this means that the text box just appears on the page.
Show in turn – this means that each bullet can be displayed one after the other within the text box.
If you have created a blank publication i.e. you have not used the Create a new publication from a template option in the Startup Wizard, then all the text in a Text object (and therefore its bullets) will display automatically as one block.
Each bullet can be displayed one after the other on a page in Opus either by clicking on the Left mouse button or pressing the space bar. Clicking the Right mouse button or the Backspace key will hide the last bullet displayed.
By default any page on a Page Template that has a bullet list are preset to display one bullet at a time. However, if you create your own text boxes containing bullets on a page, the bullets will not display one after the other.
Click on your bullet Text box. A bounding box will surround the text box.
Click on the Initially Hidden button on the Object Properties toolbar.
Double right click on an empty space on the page. This will open the Actions dialog box for the page.
Click on the Show In Turn action in the Actions Organiser on the left side of the dialog box. This will open the Show In Turn tab on the right side of the Actions dialog box.
Note:
Every Page Template you add to your publication has preset triggers and actions. The actions include both a Show In Turn and Hide In Turn action that displays content objects. If the page includes a bullet Text box, each bullet will be displayed in turn when you preview the page.
If you have created a blank publication (i.e. not from a template provided), you will need to add the BulletText script from the Script Templates option in the QuickBuild menu – see Script Templates for more information. Follow the instructions in the BulletText script to make the bullets in your text box appear.
Click on the checkbox beside the name of your Text box in the Object list until a tick appears in the checkbox.
Click on the Apply button to save your changes.
Note:
Show In Turn will step through all the bullet points in a particular text box before showing another object so if you want to show an image between two bullet points you will need to create those bullets in two independent text boxes.
Note:
If you add a Blank page from a Page Template, the Show In Turn and Hide In Turn actions will not appear on the Actions dialog. You will need to add these actions to make bullet points appear one after the other. The easiest way to achieve this is to open one of the other Page Templates in your publication and open the page’s Actions dialog box. Then copy the actions in the Actions Organiser and paste them in the Blank page.