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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. Even if you managed to find a video, it's unlikely that it matches the other images you've already used in your project. Best of all, the assets are free if you’ve got Adobe Captivate 9 or 2017.

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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 control which Captivate project assets appear in the Word document by selecting or deselecting items from among the check boxes at the right of the dialog box (Caption text, Slide Notes, etc.).

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JULY 12, 2011

If you'd like to repeat an object over a majority of your slides, one of the easiest ways to proceed is to select the object and, on the Properties panel, Timing group, select Display for rest of project. The rest of project option is compelling because it's so simple. Using the Timing group, select Display for rest of project.

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JULY 13, 2010

.   After starting Adobe Captivate 5, take a moment to display the Preferences (via the Edit menu if you are using a PC or the Adobe Captivate menu if you are on a Mac) and select the Global Category. You will see two options in the Default Locations area: Publish at and Project Cache.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

He needed to change the appearance of his mouse pointer throughout the project. To change the mouse pointer shape project-wide, first change the appearance of any mouse pointer on any slide. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer Beginner and Advanced classes. It seems that he was new to Captivate 5.5 (but

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OCTOBER 30, 2012

According to Adobe: "Use Branch Aware to calculate the final score based only on the questions in the branch that users have viewed. For example, consider that a project contains a quiz that branches into two modules that in turn contain a quiz. I created a simple project that is Branch Aware. " Huh?

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

You've produced your Captivate project in record time. The only thing left to do is Publish the project. Anyone who has published a Captivate project knows it is a simple process of choosing File > Publish and setting the appropriate options. It takes time for Captivate project to publish. by Kevin Siegel.

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

Adding audio to your Captivate project is one of the best ways to increase the effectiveness of the lesson. For instance, if you want to add audio to the project slide, you would choose Audio > Import to > Slide. If your project consisted of 100 slides and hundreds of objects, you would be looking at thousands of clicks.

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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. He told me he had spent over an hour trying to figure out how to disable the mouse-click sound, project-wide. Project-wide?

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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? Set the Properties of the object to Show for Rest of Project.

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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. Open or create a project that includes a quiz. Publish the project and view the results.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

In an ideal world, your Captivate projects would be kept to a respectable number of slides (fewer than approximately 100). Larger projects will take longer to produce, longer to publish, longer for learners to download and, most importantly, longer to complete. Choose File > New Project > Aggregator Project.

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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. by Kevin Siegel.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

A simple-to-use but often overlooked Publish Setting is the ability to assign a password to published Captivate projects. To assign a password to a project, open a project and choose File > Publish Settings. From the Project group, select the Start and End preferences.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5?

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DECEMBER 7, 2011

by Kevin Siegel    You can import or record audio to just about anything in Adobe Captivate. Ever wondered how you can get the edited audio clip out of your project so it can be used in other applications that accept audio?   Looking for a more direct method of exporting project audio?

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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 ).   Among other things, you'll find the Project Name and Description fields.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5? quote John.

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JULY 31, 2011

Once audio clips are imported into a Captivate project, they are embedded within the project and are not stored externally. From the lower left of the dialog box, select Show object level audio so that you can see all of the project's audio files (even those attached to objects on your slides). Click the Export button.

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OCTOBER 18, 2010

I'm thinking that a message similar to the following would be perfect: Believe it or not, you can add the message shown above to any Captivate project right now. All you need to do is add a Table of Contents to your project and explore the TOC Settings. Open a Captivate project and choose Project > Table of Contents.

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MAY 4, 2010

by Lori Smith Variables in Adobe Captivate 4 bring a lot of versatility to a project. Creating the variables you need for a project before you begin to add objects and create advanced actions is a best practice. Join me in May for live, online training on Adobe Captivate Advanced Actions. That was tiring! There it is!

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APRIL 19, 2011

At some point I used the spell check feature ( Project > Check Spelling ). 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).

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JUNE 7, 2010

by Kevin Siegel Ever needed to display an object across several or all of your Captivate project slides? One way to show an object (such as your logo) across multiple slides is to use Captivate's Show for rest of project command via the Options tab of several objects. The final step is to apply the Master Slide to project slide(s).

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JUNE 28, 2011

You'll be happy to hear that all is well in the new Adobe Captivate 5.5. Check out the image below: Adobe is now providing quiz templates. Once you've downloaded the zip to your computer, unzip the file and open the project with Captivate 5.5.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? and then some.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Over the past few months I've been creating more and more Project Templates for my customers. Some of the most important things you can add to a Project Template are placeholders. As the name implies, placeholders hold a spot on a slide or within a project for specific objects.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5?

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MARCH 9, 2011

   Using Windows Explorer, navigate to where Captivate has been installed on your computer (typically [InstallDirectory]/Adobe/Adobe Captivate).   Record a Captivate project using any of the modes to see the changes in the text captions (ensure Add Text Captions is selected from the Captions area).

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MAY 11, 2010

The only drawback here is that you do need to edit the.html file every time you republish the project--a minor annoyance if it gets rid of a major headache. If you know you will always want this behavior in all of your published projects, you can change the file on which your.html output is based.

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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 control which Captivate project assets appear in the Word document by selecting or deselecting items from among the check boxes at the right of the dialog box (Caption text, Slide Notes, etc.).

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

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.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5?

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Add the published modules (SWFs) to the Aggregator project. By setting the overlay TOC module as the Master Movie, the published Aggregator project will use the Skin (TOC overlay settings included) from the module. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer Beginner and Advanced classes.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

When you add a Table of Contents to a Captivate project ( Project > Table of Contents > Show TOC ), the default settings include Show Duration. Choose Project > Table of Contents. Click the OK button and then preview the project. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? by Kevin Siegel.

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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. Here's how: First, go through your project and convert the slide notes to speech. We offer two live, online classes. 

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JUNE 15, 2010

If you've tried to updated Captivate's text captions across an entire project, then you know how truly hit or miss the process can be. Using Caption styles, you can alter the way text captions will appear in a project. Want to update the appearance of your project's text captions months from now?

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APRIL 26, 2010

If you've included a Table of Contents (TOC) in your Captivate project, there are two important Run Time Options that you'll find interesting: Self Paced Learning and Navigation. Choose Project > Table of Contents to display the TOC tab of the Skin Editor. The status flag will not be reset after the project is closed.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

by Kevin Siegel Last week I wrote about how Adobe Captivate 5 offers an alternate reporting method for posting quiz data instead of an expensive LMS: Acrobat.com and the free Adobe Captivate Quiz Results Analyzer. Once posted, you would then use the Adobe Captivate Quiz Results Analyzer to create reports and charts.

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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.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

by Kevin Siegel If you have created a presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint, you can import the presentation slides into an existing Captivate project, or create a new project that uses the PowerPoint slides. Using this workflow, any changes made to the original PowerPoint presentation can be reflected in the Captivate project.

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