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ScreenSteps Documentation » ScreenSteps 2.9 » How to Split a Lesson in Two (Create Two Smaller Lessons Out of One Large Lesson)

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  • Getting Started 9
    • New Features in ScreenSteps 2.9
    • Learn About The Blue Mango Learning Systems Customer Support Methodology
    • Creating a Lesson
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    • Tagging Tip - Dragging Lessons Onto Tags in Tag Mode
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  • Additional Topics 13
    • Editing Images in an External Editor
    • How to copy an image to the clipboard
    • Importing a Plain Text File Into a Lesson
    • Syncing Image Filenames to Step Titles
    • Using Split Step
    • How to Split a Lesson in Two (Create Two Smaller Lessons Out of One Large Lesson)
    • Duplicating Lessons and Manuals
    • Uploading HTML Lessons to Your Mobile Me or .Mac Site
    • Sharing ScreenSteps Lessons with Other Users of ScreenSteps
    • How do I Resize an Image Without Resizing Annotations?
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May 09, 2011

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How to Split a Lesson in Two (Create Two Smaller Lessons Out of One Large Lesson)

This lesson will show you how to split a long lesson into smaller lessons. Breaking your lessons up into smaller sections will make your lessons easier to keep up to date.

Select First Step of New Lesson

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Select the step that you want to be the first step of the new lesson.

Select Split Lesson At This Step

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Right click on the step (not the image) and select Split Lesson At This Step. This is what will happen.

  1. The step that you clicked on and all steps after it will be removed from the current lessons.
  2. A new lesson will be created with the step you selected as the first step of that lesson.
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Comments (4)

Penny Thursday Mar 11 at 09:40 AM

Is there a way to undo this? :)
I want to unsplit a lesson but don't think it's possible?

Trevor DeVore Thursday Mar 11 at 09:44 AM

Right after you split the lesson you can use the Edit menu to undo the action. The menu should read Edit > Undo Split Lesson.

Other than that there is not. We don't have a function that will append one lesson onto the end of another.

Steve Friday Nov 12 at 07:53 AM

It would be really useful to be able to merge lessons into one. Are there any plans to do this?

Can this be achieved by copying one lesson and pasting onto the end of another (as a workaround)?

Trevor DeVore Saturday Nov 13 at 09:12 PM

@Steve: As of version 2.8.7 there is no good way to merge lessons. All you can do is copy and paste one step at a time. We do have plans to make moving content around easier in future versions, however.

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