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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

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 for training on Adobe Captivate? Need the training in-person? We Interested? 

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MARCH 25, 2014

During my beginner Adobe Captivate class , I am often asked if it's possible to ensure that learners do not leave a Text Entry Box (TEB) blank.  While there is no setting in Captivate to ensure that a TEB isn't left blank, using a little variable and some advanced action magic can make it happen. 

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

One of Adobe Captivate's most often overlooked features is its ability to generate support documentation for your eLearning content. You can edit the Word template found in Captivate’s PrintOutput folder prior to creating the output from Captivate.   Using Microsoft Word, open Adobe Captivate.dot.

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MARCH 14, 2017

During our  live, online beginner Adobe Captivate class, you learn about previewing your project pretty quickly. You will find the following menu items in the Preview drop-down menu of a standard project: Play Slide, Project, Next 5 slides, In Browser, HTML5 in Browser, Preview in SCORM Cloud, and In Adobe Edge Inspect.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

One of Adobe Captivate's most often overlooked features is its ability to generate support documentation for your eLearning content. You can edit the Word template found in Captivate’s PrintOutput folder prior to creating the output from Captivate.   Using Microsoft Word, open Adobe Captivate.dot.

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JUNE 13, 2017

During the first day of my Adobe Captivate Beginner class , attendees learn how to import and work with both images and videos. Best of all, the assets are free if you’ve got Adobe Captivate 9 or 2017. Honestly I spent maybe five minutes grabbing both assets and adding them to my Captivate project.

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OCTOBER 30, 2012

Branch Aware is new in Captivate 6. According to Adobe: "Use Branch Aware to calculate the final score based only on the questions in the branch that users have viewed. Each button jumps to a different branch within the quiz (Beginner, Intermediate, Expert).      Looking to learn Captivate quickly?

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DECEMBER 7, 2011

by Kevin Siegel    You can import or record audio to just about anything in Adobe Captivate. Using any of the techniques above will result in external files that you can use in other applications or share with other Captivate developers. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5?

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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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MARCH 9, 2011

When you record a Captivate demonstration or simulation, one of the coolest things that Captivate can do for you is automatically create the text captions. By default, Captivate does not add the end of sentence punctuation to the text captions. Exit Captivate.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5?

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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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JULY 31, 2011

I 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. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5?

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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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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 1, 2010

by Kevin Siegel How many times have you wanted to make Captivate slide objects animate like you can do in PowerPoint (you know, make an image fly in, flip, rotate, follow a path. And how many times have you been stymied when it comes to adding effects because well, Captivate simply did not offer the feature. Looking to learn Captivate?

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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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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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APRIL 19, 2011

There was a typo flagged in that very same caption, which I naturally allowed Captivate to fix. 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.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5? The caption resized.

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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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JUNE 28, 2011

by Kevin Siegel You've always been able to create quizzes with Captivate. However, if you've spent any time with the quiz feature in Captivate 5, you are probably a bit disappointed with how bad some of the text formatting features are. You'll be happy to hear that all is well in the new Adobe Captivate 5.5.

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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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OCTOBER 25, 2011

So I'm working with a text caption in Adobe Captivate and the font size is 16 points. Of course, if you use any of the devices mentioned above to calculate a desired font Size, you'll still need to return to Captivate and type the new Size within Captivate.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5?

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Last week I showed you how to remove the TOC from an Aggregated Captivate course. If you've never used Captivate's Overlay feature, check out the TOC overlay article I wrote earlier this year. Publish all of the Captivate lessons as SWFs. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? by Kevin Siegel.

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AUGUST 3, 2011

by Kevin Siegel    You've captured a series of screens using Adobe Captivate. You can easily edit any Captivate background with a graphics program like MS Paint and erase the problem areas. You can easily edit any Captivate background with a graphics program like MS Paint and erase the problem areas.

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OCTOBER 19, 2014

Lynda.com has announced an Essential Training course on Adobe Captivate 8 by Aaron Quigley. It’s a great course for beginners and intermediate users to explore the Captivate authoring workflow and capabilities, and learn how to use the new features introduced in Adobe Captivate 8.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Adding an image onto a Captivate slide is as simple as choosing Insert > Image. Once an image is imported into a Captivate project, a link is automatically established between the version of the image within Captivate and its source file. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5?

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MAY 11, 2016

If you're looking to learn Adobe Captivate. this beginner course is for you. Get a Jump-Start On Mastering This Awesome eLearning Development Tool! and quickly. During the 6 chapters that make up this course you'll learn how to create a soft-skills lesson from scratch.

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APRIL 12, 2011

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. The Captivate Preferences dialog box will open.     Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5?

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JANUARY 12, 2011

Prior to publishing a Captivate project, you should spend a few minutes filling in fields you will find in the Project Information window (via File > Project Info ). That's something you learn how to do in my  Captivate 5: Beyond the Essentials online class.)    Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5?

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

One of Adobe Captivate’s most often overlooked features is its ability to generate support documentation for your eLearning content. You can edit the Word template found in Captivate’s PrintOutput folder prior to creating the output from Captivate. Using Microsoft Word, open Adobe Captivate.dot.

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

by Kevin Siegel      If you attend our  Adobe Captivate Beginner class , you will learn how to publish projects as SWF (for desktop users) and HTML5 (for mobile users).  According to Adobe, the Flash Player is installed on the majority of the world's computers. so let's do it!

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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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FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Due to popular demand from our friends in Europe, we're now offering our top rated Captivate training during Central European Time Zone hours! 

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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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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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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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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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