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Return to Adobe Captivate and, from the Edit menu, select Paste as background.
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A confirmation message appears. Click Yes.
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The new, updated slide (as an image) is placed in the project. If the original slide contained
objects such as captions or highlight boxes, they appear on the new slide.
Tip: In Adobe Captivate 2, you can edit background images directly from the Library. To edit a
background image, in the Library, right click the image you want to edit, and select Edit with
mspaint or Edit with to use a different image-editing application.
Merging objects into a slide
Any object that you create and place on a slide such as an image, caption, click box, highlight box,
text entry box, or button can be merged into the slide. Merging permanently removes the object
as an object and makes the object part of the slide.
The merging feature can be useful in several different situations. For example, if you import a
large image into a slide that contains other objects, you can merge the image into the slide so that
it can serve as a static background for the other objects. You can make text a permanent part of a
slide by creating a transparent text caption and then merging the caption.
To merge an object into a slide:
Open an Adobe Captivate project.
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Double-click the slide that contains the object you want to merge.
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Right-click the object that you want to merge into the slide for example, an image, caption, or
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click box.
Select Merge into Background from the pop-up menu.
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A warning appears, stating that merging cannot be "undone" and asking you to confirm the
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merge. Click Yes.
The object is merged into the slide.
Tip: To merge an object into the background, select the desired object and press Ctrl+M.
Changing slide order
It is easy to change the order of slides after you have recorded a project. You can change the slide
order in Storyboard view or Edit view (with the Filmstrip).
Tip: Sometimes it is easier to move slides and keep track of them if you have assigned slide labels.
These are short titles for each slide that enable you to identify the slide more specifically than you can
just by a number.
To change slide order in Storyboard view:
Open an Adobe Captivate project.
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Click the slide you want to move and hold the left mouse button down.
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Drag the slide to a new location and release the mouse button.
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