Buttons are an important part of your organization's standard look and feel and you want to use your design in Captivate. Create custom versions of your button for each Captivate button state and import them using the Button object. Note: these directions are written for Captivate 4 but may work in previous versions as well ). You can reuse button graphics you have created in other programs in Captivate. Captivate has three button states you need to understand: up, over, and down. Captivate will expect the buttons to follow a standard naming convention. MORE >>

received an interesting email last week from a Captivate developer asking where imported audio was physically stored on the computer. She had edited much of the audio from within Captivate and needed to share some of the edited clips with team members in her office. Once audio clips are imported into a Captivate project, they are embedded within the project and are not stored externally. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? Adobe's Technical Communication Suite Captivateby Kevin Siegel. Select some or all of the audio files. Click the Export button. MORE >>

The common way to publish a completed Captivate eLearning video is as a SWF (small web file). But it is possible to publish your Captivate video so that the Skin, Widgets, FMR's and Animations are split apart from the SWF. However, I have heard from more than one Captivate developer that they have been asked to do so to keep the size of the main SWF down; or maybe it is a requirement before uploading the video. The Captivate Preferences dialog box will open.     Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5? by Kevin Siegel. MORE >>

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. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate? Adobe's Technical Communication Suite Captivate eLearninglate last week. Over the next few weeks, I'll be spotlighting some of the new features here. version looks almost identical to version 5. And that's it. MORE >>

But I do e-learning development and the tool I am using most often these days is Adobe Captivate. For example, I use PowerPoint to create transparent PNGs ( see my post from another blog ) that I can use in my Captivate projects. Captivate can be used to import PowerPoint presentations ( see my post from another blog ) saving you the work of cutting and pasting or redeveloping parts of the training. Storyboard e-learning Captivate Graphics PowerPointThose are just a few reasons I like it. still leverage PowerPoint whenever I can. Is PowerPoint one of your tools? MORE >>