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In an earlier post last week, I discussed Adobe Captivate's views and compared them to PowerPoint's deafult views. I also explained about the Storyboard View. In this post, I'll look at Captivate's Edit view, which in many ways is similar to PowerPoint's Normal view.
If you are not already in Edit view within Captivate, choose the View drop-down in the toolbar, and select Edit View as shown in Figure 1 below.
Figure 1: Choose Edit View in Adobe Captivate
Edit View has a tri-pane view that's similar to PowerPoint's three panes. These are how they compare:
Figure 2 shows you Captivate's Edit View. At the top of the Slide area, you'll notice an option called Edit PPT.
Figure 2: Edit View in Adobe Captivate
If you don't see an Edit PPT option, it means that the Adobe Captivate project you are working on did not originate from a PowerPoint presentation.
The Edit PPT option is actually more than one option -- click it to the menu that you can see in Figure 3.
Figure 3: Edit PPT Option in Adobe Captivate
So what do these different options mean? To find out check this space next week!
Categories: captivate, powerpoint
Labels: captivate, powerpoint
Let me imagine that you started your e Learning project with a PowerPoint presentation -- and then you imported that presentation into Adobe Captivate. Worth noting here that Captivate 4 includes this great PowerPoint roundtrip workflow that I discussed in an earlier blog post.
OK -- now that you have imported your PowerPoint presentation into Captivate, it's time to get working. First of all, let me tell you that at least two of the three views in Captivate look and work exactly like PowerPoint's own views although they are called different names.
Now about the Storyboard view in Captivate 4 -- you can see it in Figure 1 below.
Figure 1: Captivate's Storyboard View
In this view, you can drag and reorder slides just like you can within PowerPoint -- you can also right-click any of the slides to be presented with a menu that provides some familiar options (see Figure 2) such as Hide Slide, Cut, Copy, Paste, etc. In addition, there are some options here that PowerPoint does not provide (and I wish it did!) -- this includes the Lock Slides and Properties options.
Figure 2: Slide Right-Click Options
Now let me choose the Properties option in the right-click menu. This brings up this cool Properties dialog box that seems to include everything except the kitchen sink! Look at Figure 3, and you'll see that there's an awful lot you can do with your slides in Captivate.
Figure 3: Slide Properties in Adobe Captivate
Here are some of the options available to you within the Properties dialog box:
I haven't covered all the options in the Properties dialog box -- but as you can see, these are quite extensive and powerful.
You can get a free trial copy of Adobe Captivate here...
Categories: captivate, powerpoint
Labels: captivate, powerpoint
I have been playing with the Adobe E-Learning Suite for several days now, and the Adobe Captivate 4 program bundled as part of the Suite continues impressing me with its logical workflows and options. In this post, I'll focus on Captivate's new Roundtrip PowerPoint workflow feature.
You start Captivate normally, and choose the "From MS PowerPoint" option within the "Create Project" area of the startup screen, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Start an Adobe Captivate project with a PowerPoint presentation
This brings up an Open dialog box from where you can navigate to, and choose any PowerPoint presentation. Both the new PPTX and older PPT file formats are supported. If you choose a PPTX file, Captivate launches PowerPoint behind the scenes although you won't see the PowerPoint interface while it imports all the slides.
At this point of time, you can select individual slides from the presentation that you want to import, or just import all slides (see Figure 2). One important option here is the "Linked" checkbox. If you enable this option, your Captivate project will be dynamically linked to your original PowerPoint file. Any changes made to the original PowerPoint file will reflect in your Captivate project.
Figure 2: Dynamically linked PowerPoint files in Captivate
Thereafter click the OK button, and Captivate will bring in all your PowerPoint slides into a new project (see Figure 3).
Figure 3: Imported PowerPoint slides in Captivate
Note: Remember that the dynamically linked PowerPoint slides options (also known as Roundtrip PowerPoint Workflow) only works with PPTX files, and Captivate does not import any PowerPoint animations within the new project.
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