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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2017 - Fourth Edition

By : Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx
Book Image

Mastering Adobe Captivate 2017 - Fourth Edition

By: Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

<p>Adobe Captivate is used to create highly engaging, interactive, and responsive eLearning content. This book gives you the expertise you need to reinforce your own professional-quality eLearning course modules.</p> <p>The book takes you through the production of three pieces of eLearning content. First, you will learn how to create a typical interactive Captivate project. This will give you the opportunity to review all Captivate objects one by one and uncover the application's main tools. Then, you will use the built-in capture engine of Captivate to create an interactive software simulation and a Video Demo that can be uploaded to your YouTube channel or published as an MP4 video. Finally, you will approach the advanced responsive features of Captivate to create a project that can be viewed on any device. At the end of the book, you will empower your workflow and projects with the most advanced features of the application, including variables, advanced actions, using Captivate with other applications, and more.</p> <p>This book is an advanced tutorial, containing all the assets required to build its sample projects. Self-exploration is encouraged through extra exercises, experimentation, and external references.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Adding slides in a project

Now that the first slide of the project is finished, your next task is to add a second slide and apply the appropriate Master Slide:

  1. Click the Slides icon, which is the first icon on the Toolbar.
  2. Click Content Slide to add a new Content Slide to the project.
  3. In the Properties inspector, open the Master Slide list.
  4. Apply the Title&text Master Slide to your new slide.

The Title&text Master Slide has a big rectangle that defines the content area of this slide. It also contains two placeholder objects that you will fill with text using these steps:

  1. Double-click the title placeholder.
  2. Type Reading the schedule in the title placeholder.
  3. Double-click the caption text placeholder
  4. Type Click on the Next button to explore the various components of the schedule in the placeholder.
  5. Click anywhere on the slide or hit the Esc key to accept your new text...