You can easily add a Table of Contents to your lesson by choosing Project > Table of Contents and then selecting Show TOC.
Like magic, all of the project slides will be added to the TOC. If you spent the time adding Labels to the slides before accessing the Table of Contents screen, the Labels would appear on the TOC as slide names. You can change the name easily enough by double-clicking any slide name on the TOC and typing a name. If you don't add slide Labels, the name given to each slide is based on the slide number. (Slide 1 will be named Slide 1, and on it goes.)
Recently I had a student in one of my Captivate classes ask if she could use her slide labels on the TOC "after the fact." She had added her slide Labels after she had added the TOC. The result of this reverse workflow was that her new slide Labels refused to appear on the TOC, even after she deselected and then reselected the Show TOC check box.
The solution to the problem (and it was a problem… she really wanted to use the slide Labels and was dreading having to retype them on the TOC), is simple, yet not obvious.
First, add your slide Labels to as many slides as appropriate (select the slide on the Film Strip and then add the label via the Property Inspector's Label field).
Open the TOC window and Show the TOC. Then, from the bottom of the TOC window, click the Reset TOC button.
And BAM! The existing TOC will be replaced and the names of the resulting slides will match the slide Labels.
You have no idea how much time you just saved me – thank you, thank you, thank you.
You have no idea how much time you just saved me – thank you, thank you, thank you.
You have no idea how much time you just saved me – thank you, thank you, thank you.
Like. I know I will need this eventually.
Like. I know I will need this eventually.
Like. I know I will need this eventually.