In the early Captivate days, you could create a menu for your Captivate project using a TOC feature found via the project skin. Basically, you could enable or disable the TOC. The resulting TOC overlayed your slides and was pretty much devoid of customization or personalization features. Thank goodness for Captivate 4 and the much improved TOC feature.
In addition to its ease-of-use, the new TOC feature lets you quickly add personal touches such as your contact information and even your photo.
Add your personal information to the project:
- Choose File > Document Info
- Fill in the information with your personal information (the information that you type here can appear on the TOC–which you will see in a moment)
- Click OK
Add a TOC to the Project Skin
- Choose Project > Skin Editor
- On the TOC tab, select Show TOC By simply clicking Show TOC, every slide in your project will be added to the TOC. There is nothing wrong with including everything; however, it might be a bit less cluttered if you only include the major parts of the lesson.
- Remove the check mark from any slide that you do not want to appear on the TOC
- Click OK
If you Preview the project , you will notice that your TOC (also known as a menu) appears at the left of your lesson. As you move through the lesson, green check marks are automatically added to the TOC. Nice!
Add your personal information and image to the TOC
- Open the Skin Editor and, on the TOC tab, select the Info button
Hmmm… it appears that the Project information you added a moment ago isn't here. Or is it?
- Click the Project Info button and the fields in the TOC information field will automatically be filled with the Project Information you added earlier.
All that's needed now is a picture to go with the name.
- On the TOC tab, click the Info button
- In the Photo area, click the three dots to Browse
- Click the Import button
- Open the image you'd like to appear on the TOC
- Resize/Crop the image as appropriate
- Click OK as needed to close all of the open dialog boxes
And behold… the image, name and contact information will appear on the TOC when you preview or publish the project.
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