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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.   Using Microsoft Word, open Adobe Captivate.dot. You can find the file in the Adobe Captivate application folder on your computer, within Gallery > PrintOutput.

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MARCH 14, 2017

During our  live, online beginner Adobe Captivate class, you learn about previewing your project pretty quickly. by Kevin Siegel, COTP. The two modes that I use the most are Next 5 slides and In Browser.

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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. by Kevin Siegel, COTP, CTT. Fortunately, the eLearning Brothers have come to the rescue.

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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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OCTOBER 18, 2017

One of Adobe Captivate's most often overlooked features is its ability to generate support documentation for your eLearning content.   Using Microsoft Word, open Adobe Captivate.dot. You can find the file in the Adobe Captivate application folder on your computer, within Gallery > PrintOutput.

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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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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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JUNE 1, 2010

And how many times have you been stymied when it comes to adding effects because well, Captivate simply did not offer the feature. That's right, the new Adobe Captivate 5 offers effects. Captivate 5 features so many effects, we just might have to offer a dedicated class just to cover them all.

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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!    Class Schedule.

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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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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 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 30, 2012

Each button jumps to a different branch within the quiz (Beginner, Intermediate, Expert).      Looking to learn Captivate quickly? We teach two live, online Captivate 6 classes.    Adobe Captivate Essentials  and  Adobe Captivate Beyond the Essentials (Advanced).

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JULY 31, 2011

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

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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. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer  Beginner  and Advanced  classes. Both

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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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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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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer Beginner and Advanced classes. Both Windows and Macintosh developers can attend these classes. If you don't want to update some of the selected items, you can remove the check mark to the left of an items name.

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MARCH 29, 2011

While simple to use, you won't get very far with Widgets if the pesky Widgets panel is empty (something I've see more than a few times when I teach my Advanced Captivate class ). Navigate to the location of the Widgets that were installed along with Captivate (typically this is GalleryWidgets ).

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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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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer Beginner and Advanced classes. Both Windows and Macintosh developers can attend these 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.

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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. Both Windows and Macintosh developers can attend these classes. by Kevin Siegel. What's that you say?

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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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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

A couple of months back, the Adobe Captivate blog demonstrated a twitter widget that can be integrated within a Captivate Flash output to send a tweet (as questions/suggestions/comments etc.) Moreover, it boasts of a PHP proxy class that can be used to overcome the cross domain issues of Flash.

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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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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. Analyze the Quiz Results.

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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.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? and then some.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer Beginner and Advanced classes. Both Windows and Macintosh developers can attend these classes. That Angle is instantly reset to 0. No dragging. Just a simple double-click and done.

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APRIL 12, 2011

    Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5? We offer  Beginner and Advanced classes. Both  Both Windows and Macintosh developers can attend these classes. 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.

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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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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

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer Beginner and Advanced classes. Both Windows and Macintosh developers can attend these classes. As you complete the interactivity on each slide, a green check mark will appear in the Status column.

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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.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5? We offer  Beginner and Advanced classes, as well as a half-day course on Advanced Actions. by Kevin Siegel.

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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).    As an alternative to SWFs, Captivate allows developers to publish content as HTML5. How awesome is that?

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