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Chapter 10: Slides
Editing slides
After you have recorded, imported, created, or copied slides into an Adobe Captivate project, you
can edit the slide in numerous ways.
can edit the slide in numerous ways.
Duplicating slides
You can duplicate slides in Storyboard view or Edit view (with the Filmstrip enabled).
Duplicating slides is an easy way to expand your projects. For example, if you carefully design a
slide with a certain background color, layout, caption, and highlight box, you can simply
duplicate that slide and change some of the elements or text to add more information to your
project.
Duplicating slides is an easy way to expand your projects. For example, if you carefully design a
slide with a certain background color, layout, caption, and highlight box, you can simply
duplicate that slide and change some of the elements or text to add more information to your
project.
To duplicate slides:
1.
Open an Adobe Captivate project.
2.
Do one of the following:
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Right-click the slide to copy and select Duplicate Slide.
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Select a slide and press Ctrl+D.
Tip: To select multiple slides, press Shift or Ctrl on the keyboard while clicking on the desired
slides. To select all slides press Ctrl+A or from the Edit menu, select Select All Slides.
slides. To select all slides press Ctrl+A or from the Edit menu, select Select All Slides.
The slide or slides you selected are duplicated and placed in the project. You can edit and work
with the new slides just like the original slides.
with the new slides just like the original slides.
Copying slides to the clipboard
Adobe Captivate provides an easy way to copy a slide to the clipboard. You can then paste the
slide into a graphics editing program (for example, Fireworks or Photoshop), edit the slide, and
then paste the slide back into Adobe Captivate. This is a useful feature, particularly if you don't
have much time and need to make a small change to a slide.
slide into a graphics editing program (for example, Fireworks or Photoshop), edit the slide, and
then paste the slide back into Adobe Captivate. This is a useful feature, particularly if you don't
have much time and need to make a small change to a slide.
For example, suppose your project is nearly done when you discover that one slide, a screenshot of
a web browser, contains an address line showing an internal company server address. To quickly
solve the problem, copy the slide to the clipboard, open the slide in Fireworks, “erase” the
information in the address field by painting over it with the color white, save the slide as an image
(e.g., JPEG), and then from Adobe Captivate, paste the image back into the project. When you
edit slides in this way, you don't need to re-record.
a web browser, contains an address line showing an internal company server address. To quickly
solve the problem, copy the slide to the clipboard, open the slide in Fireworks, “erase” the
information in the address field by painting over it with the color white, save the slide as an image
(e.g., JPEG), and then from Adobe Captivate, paste the image back into the project. When you
edit slides in this way, you don't need to re-record.
To copy a slide to the clipboard:
1.
Open an Adobe Captivate project in Edit view.
2.
Select the slide that you want to copy as a bitmap.
3.
From the Edit menu, select Copy Background.
4.
Open a graphics editing program and paste the slide into the program by pressing Ctrl+V.
5.
Make any desired changes to the slide.
6.
Copy the image in the graphics program by pressing Ctrl+C so the image is saved to
the clipboard.
the clipboard.