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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

Managing styles with the Properties inspector

In this section, you will explore how the Properties inspector can be used to apply and create styles:

  1. Still in the Chapter06/styles.cptx file you created in the previous section, select the title placeholder on the first slide of the new project.
  2. If needed, click the Properties icon on the Toolbar to open the Properties inspector.

The Style Name drop-down list (shown as 1 in the following screenshot) tells you that the style that's currently applied to the selected object is the +[Default Title Smart Shape Style] style. The + sign in front of the style name means that the formatting has been manually changed on top of the original style. Technically, this is called a style override. There's no way of knowing which formatting changes have been made on top of the original style:

Just above the Style Name drop-down menu of the Properties inspector is another icon (marked as 2 in the preceding screenshot). This icon gives you...