Questions of the Week

Adobe Captivate Question: Can I Quickly Change Transitions?

I would like to change the default caption transition effect from Fade in and Out to Fade in. It appears to me that the best way for me to create self paced learning is to provide users with Next /Back buttons on captions so that they can move on when they have read the content. As the default is set to Fade in and Out, I have to manually change each caption, or the image just fades.

Answer

 
Show the properties of any one text caption in your project (you can right-click a text caption and choose Properties). On the Options tab, change the transition and then, prior to clicking OK, check out the Apply to All feature.

 
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Adobe Captivate Question: Can I Change My Speech Agent?

I just got through with a series of lessons where the author wanted to use Kate's voice. Having tired of selecting Kate every time (the lessons were quite long with lots of chit-chat), I checked the "Do not show me again" box. Bad move because now I can't figure out how to get back to that speech setting to get that dialog box back again. I'm working on someone else's lessons now and they want a male voice. Would you mind enlightening me?

Answer:

If you choose Edit > Preferences and select General Settings | Confirmations Messages, you can reselect Speech selection. From that point forward, the dialog box you hid will reappear. Also, if you choose Audio > Speech Management, you can change the agent from one to the other with minimal clicks.

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