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MAY 31, 2011

by Kevin Siegel Adobe announced the immediate availability of Adobe Captivate 5.5 If you are a veteran Captivate 5 developer, you'll appreciate that the 5.5  For instance, if you take a look at the main toolbar at the top of the Captivate window, you'll see a new Publish To YouTube command button.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

  If you're using Adobe Captivate 5 there's a handy dandy SlideNumbering widget that lets you put the slide count on any/all of your project slides using the format you like (e.g. What's that you say, you're still using Adobe Captivate 4? For Captivate 5 developers, the process is simple.

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MARCH 9, 2011

If you've decided that end of sentence punctuation is something you'd like, here's a quick way to have Captivate add them for you as you record a simulation or demonstration. Exit Captivate.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5? We offer  Beginner and Advanced classes. Both

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Captivate 4 and 5 both come with a variable called  cpCmdCC. In Adobe Captivate 5: Create a Standard Advanced Action ( Project > Advanced Actions ) as shown below.   In Adobe Captivate 4:   You can do the same thing as above, but the Captivate 4 interface is a tad different than version 5.

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

by Kevin Siegel    I received an SOS from a fellow Captivate developer who was having a hate-hate relationship with the mouse click sounds he was hearing in his Adobe Captivate demonstration.     Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? Project-wide?

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JUNE 21, 2011

While some of the new features in Adobe Captivate 5.5 such as the ability to free rotate and publish to Apple mobile devices ) have gotten all the fanfare since Adobe released the new software, one new feature has sat on the sideline, overshadowed by the others: Shadow. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate?

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

by Kevin Siegel    When creating a new Software Simulation in Adobe Captivate, the red box that you can drag to any area of your screen display is known as the  Screen Area. Perhaps Captivate 6? Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer  Beginner  and Advanced  classes. Both

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APRIL 19, 2011

If you resize a text caption or button in Adobe Captivate, and then edit the object's text at all, the object will do you a favor and resize. Display Captivate's Preferences (Edit menu for Windows users; Adobe Captivate menu for Mac users).   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5?

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JUNE 7, 2011

by Kevin Siegel One of the shortcomings with working with objects in Adobe Captivate has always been the inability to control the rotation of a selected object. Beginning with Captivate 5, you could flip or rotate an image via the Properties panel. In fact, there are four tools in Captivate 5 and 5.5

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JUNE 12, 2012

Not too long ago I wrote a post about my initial reaction to Articulate Storyline and its relation to Adobe Captivate. While doing my usual reading on all things e-Learning related, I stumbled across a pretty nice video by Cogentys (included at the end of this post) detailing a quick comparison between Storyline and Captivate.

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MAY 15, 2012

by Kevin Siegel    During every  Captivate beginner class , time is spent on the second day teaching everyone how to use Captivate's Text-to-Speech feature to convert slide notes into speech.   Looking to learn Captivate quickly? We offer two live, online classes. 

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JULY 31, 2011

Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer Beginner and Advanced classes. Click the Export button. Create a folder (or open an existing folder) and click OK. Navigate to the folder and you'll find your audio files. Both Windows and Macintosh developers can attend these classes.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

It takes time for Captivate project to publish. Adobe ran some time trials on how long it took to publish a large project (254 slides) using Captivate 4. When Adobe created Captivate 5, they wanted to decrease your twiddle time. To that end, Adobe came up with a feature called the incremental publish engine.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Adobe Captivate 5 offers an alternate reporting option to using an LMS: you can create a free account on Acrobat.com, and set the reporting preferences in a Captivate project so that the quiz results are uploaded to Acrobat.com. Start the Adobe Captivate Quiz Results Analyzer. Looking to learn Captivate?

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JUNE 28, 2011

You'll be happy to hear that all is well in the new Adobe Captivate 5.5. I've spent some time playing with question slides and it appears that the text formatting issues that plagued Captivate 5 are a thing of the past. Which brings me to my favorite Captivate 5.5 When you visit the Quiz menu in Captivate 5.5,

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

So I'm working with a text caption in Adobe Captivate and the font size is 16 points.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer Beginner and Advanced classes. by Kevin Siegel. I'd like the font size to be twice as big. What's that you say? Math isn't your friend. not your thing?

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AUGUST 3, 2011

by Kevin Siegel    You've captured a series of screens using Adobe Captivate. To test the effect, preview a few of your slides.)   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer  Beginner and Advanced classes. Both

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MARCH 29, 2011

Widgets give Captivate developers the ability to extend Captivate's functionality without limits. While you need Adobe Flash to create Widgets, you do not have to be a Flash developer, nor do you need to have Flash on your computer to insert Widgets into a Captivate project. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer Beginner and Advanced classes. Note: You can update multiple Library assets by shift-clicking or control-clicking items and then showing the Update Library Items dialog box. Both Windows and Macintosh developers can attend these classes.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer Beginner and Advanced classes. Publish the Aggregator project and you'll see that the TOC is hidden until the learner elects to click the TOC button on the playbar. Both Windows and Macintosh developers can attend these classes.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Captivate developers have been able to add background audio to their projects since Captivate was known as RoboDemo. In Adobe Captivate 5, you simply choose Audio > Import to > Background and open the audio file (wav or mp3). Adobe Captivate 5 addressed this shortcoming.

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JUNE 14, 2011

by Kevin Siegel Anyone who created eLearning lessons using any version of Adobe Captivate older than version 5 is painfully aware that Captivate does not offer publishing options for any of the Apple mobile devices (iPhone, iPad or iPod). The new Adobe Captivate 5.5 eliminates the issue.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When importing voiceover audio into Adobe Captivate, I always suggest that audio be added directly to the slide instead of objects on the slide ( Audio > Import to > Slide ).   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5? We offer  Beginner and Advanced classes, as well as a half-day course on Advanced Actions.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

  Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5? We are now offering Beginner and Advanced classes, as well as a half-day course on Advanced Actions. Tags: Adobe's Technical Communication Suite Captivate. Both Windows and Macintosh developers can attend the classes.

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APRIL 12, 2011

    Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5? We offer  Beginner and Advanced classes. Both Keep in mind that when uploading your lesson to your web server, all of these files must be kept together, and in the same folder. Leave one of the resources behind, and the lesson will not play at all. 

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APRIL 5, 2010

by Kevin Siegel During my Adobe Captivate beginner classes, I always teach students how to use Captivate's Text to Speech. Click the Close button The new pronunciation will be used by your Speech Agent within Captivate the next time you convert text to speech. And why not? We've got you covered.

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MAY 17, 2011

One of the best new features in Adobe Captivate 5 is Master Slides. I I recently received an email from a concerned Captivate developer who had created a master slide similar to the one shown below. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5? We offer  Beginner and Advanced classes. Both

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Take a look at the Insert menu in Adobe Captivate 5 and you'll see two similar commands: New Slide and Blank Slide. So the natural assumption would be that Adobe goofed when adding the menu items and one or the other should have been removed during the beta process.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Adobe Captivate 6 for Beginners or How to Create and Publish Your First Course Module September 26, 2012 10:00 AM US Pacific time REGISTER: [link] Just downloaded Adobe Captivate 6 and want that perfect starter tutorial? Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for [.].

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MAY 4, 2010

by Lori Smith Variables in Adobe Captivate 4 bring a lot of versatility to a project. Join me in May for live, online training on Adobe Captivate Advanced Actions. And if you need to learn Captivate, we offer two online classes (Beginner and Advanced). Click here for details on the Beginner class.

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APRIL 5, 2011

About the Author: Lori Smith is IconLogic's lead programmer and Adobe Captivate developer. Lori teaches our Adobe Captivate 5 Advanced Actions class. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5? We offer  Beginner and Advanced classes. Both no harm, no foul.

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JULY 27, 2010

  Beginning with Adobe Captivate 4, and continuing in Captivate 5, you can create a link to a PowerPoint presentation during the import process by simply selecting the Link option on the Convert PowerPoint Presentations dialog box. we offer two online classes for Captivate 4, Beginner and Advanced.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

  Text-to-Speech (TTS) was one of the coolest new features in Adobe Captivate 4. In the new Captivate 5, TTS is still available but the interface for converting text to speech has changed (like everything else). Looking to learn Captivate? we still offer two online classes for Captivate 4, Beginner and Advanced.

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JULY 20, 2010

  Back in June, I wrote about the new Effects feature in Adobe Captivate 5. we offer two online classes for Captivate 4, Beginner and Advanced. Click here for details on the Beginner class. Lastly, the new Captivate 5 has been released by Adobe. by Kevin Siegel. We have a couple of options.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

(That's something you learn how to do in my  Captivate 5: Beyond the Essentials online class.)        In fact, filling in the fields within the Project Information window is so important, and so simple, I encourage my beginner Captivate students to fill it in as well. quote John.

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JULY 6, 2011

So along comes Captivate 5.5 As you can see in the image below, Adobe overhauled the Timeline colors. Nice job Adobe! If you have Captivate pet peeves , let me know. If you have Captivate pet peeves , let me know. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer Beginner and Advanced classes.

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MAY 11, 2010

Join me in May for live, online training on Adobe Captivate Advanced Actions. And if you are new to Captivate, we offer two online classes (Beginner and Advanced). Click here for details on the Beginner class. Tags: Adobe's Technical Communication Suite Captivate eLearning mLearning.

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