June 13, 2018
Easily Add Page Numbers to Your Captivate eLearning Course
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June 13, 2018
Easily Add Page Numbers to Your Captivate eLearning Course
I'm the IT guy for a software company in Kingston, TN but the scope of my job extends into eLearning Development and Customer Service. I've been working with Adobe Captivate since 2016. I love solving problems myself and other users encounter in Captivate and pushing the software to "find out what it can do". I'm currently working on my Master's Degree in Information Technology Management.
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Have you ever needed to add page numbers to an eLearning project? That’s easy with Adobe Captivate and in this short video I show you how.

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2018-11-27 03:49:38
2018-11-27 03:49:38

Dear Chris,

I had a little trouble in viewing the video.  Maybe keeping a link to the resource also will be helpful.

 

 

 

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2018-09-27 14:31:40
2018-09-27 14:31:40

Great info!

 

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2018-06-14 18:20:15
2018-06-14 18:20:15

If you would rather have the page count appear as “Page 1” you can text to the caption containing the variable. For example, putting Page $$pageNumber$$ in the text caption will give you the page numbering you are looking for.

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2018-06-13 13:38:41
2018-06-13 13:38:41

Hi Chris, I enjoyed your video. I was wondering if there is an advantage to inserting page numbers that way vs using the system variable cpInfoCurrentSlide?

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2018-06-14 18:20:34
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I feel like the biggest advantage is that I have complete control over the variable and page number. I’ve worked on projects where question slides weren’t included in the page count so the page count would look something like this – page 1, page 2, question, question, page 3, etc. While you can certainly do that with cpInfoCurrentSlide and a little math, I find it easier (and faster) to use a custom variable, plus, if I add another question slide I don’t need to go back and refactor the page number (Just remember not to increment or decrement the variable on the question slides). So, I guess to really answer your question, using a custom variable and the method I use or something similar makes it easy to be flexible in how the pages in an eLearning course are numbered.

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