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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By : Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx
Book Image

Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By: Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Adobe Captivate is used to create highly engaging, interactive, and responsive eLearning content. This book takes you through the production of a few pieces of eLearning content, covering all the project types and workflows of Adobe Captivate. First, you will learn how to create a typical interactive Captivate project. This will give you the opportunity to review all Captivate objects 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 published as an MP4 video. Then, you will approach the advanced responsive features of Captivate to create a project that can be viewed on any device. And finally, you will immerse your learners in a 360o environment by creating Virtual Reality projects of Adobe Captivate. At the end of the book, you will empower your workflow and projects with the newer and most advanced features of the application, including variables, advanced actions, JavaScript, and using Captivate 2019 with other applications. If you want to produce high quality eLearning content using a wide variety of techniques, implement eLearning in your company, enable eLearning on any device, assess the effectiveness of the learning by using extensive Quizzing features, or are simply interested in eLearning, this book has you covered!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
7
Working with Quizzes
14
Variables and Advanced Actions

Duplicating object

Currently, you have a single rounded rectangle Smart Shape on your slide. However, you need three of those on this slide, and they should all look the same.

Instead of drawing two brand new Smart Shapes, you will build on what you've already created by duplicating the existing rounded rectangle and changing the text. Follow these steps:

  1. Select the rounded rectangle Smart Shape.
  2. Use the Ctrl + D (Windows) or command + D (Mac) shortcut to duplicate the existing shape.
  3. Double-click the newly created shape and replace the text with Bruxelles - Midi.
  4. Hit the Esc key to leave text-editing mode, while keeping the Smart Shape selected.
  5. Repeat the procedure to create a third shape. Write Oostende in the third Smart Shape.
  6. Arrange your Smart Shapes so that the slide looks like the following screenshot:
To duplicate an object, you can also drag it with the mouse while holding down the Ctrl (Windows) or command (Mac) key. This gives you the ability to duplicate...