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You can add and edit slide notes in the slide notes window, which is available in the Storyboard,
Edit, or Branching view, at the bottom of the Adobe Captivate window. To open the slide notes
pane, select View > Show Slide Notes. The slide notes pane appears at the bottom of the Adobe
Captivate window. You can also view slide notes in Slide Properties, in the Record Audio dialog
box (within Scripts), and if you publish to Handouts (select the Slide notes option). Slide notes
are useful in the Record Audio dialog box because you can write voice-over text in the notes and
then read the text directly from the dialog as you record. If you export your project to Word to
create handouts, you have the option to include slide notes in the document. This can be useful if
you create a Word document version of your project so that others can review it and you want to
provide your reviewers with some extra information about certain slides.
After you create notes for a slide, the Notes button on the Slide Properties dialog box appears in
bold text to indicate that the slide contains added notes.
To create a slide note:
Open an Adobe Captivate project.
1.
From the View menu, select Show Slide Notes.
2.
The slide notes pane appears at the bottom of the Adobe Captivate window.
Click to select the slide to which you want to add a note.
3.
Click in the slide notes window where it says "Click to add notes for the selected slide."
4.
Type in any notes for the slide.
5.
Click to select the next slide to which you want to add a note; notes are saved automatically.
6.
Adding plain text to a slide
As you edit a project, you may want to add some text to the slide, but not have the text appear as
a text caption over the slide. There is an easy trick you can use to add plain text to a slide: simply
add the text as a transparent text caption.
To create a transparent text caption:
Open an Adobe Captivate project.
1.
In Storyboard view, double-click the slide to which you want to add a transparent text caption.
2.
From the Insert menu, select Text Caption.
3.
The Caption Properties dialog box appears.
In Caption type, click the pop-up menu and select [transparent].
4.
Change other text caption options as necessary.
5.
Font
Click the pop-up menu to select a font for the text caption.
Size
Click the pop-up menu to select a font size for the caption text.
Color Click the color box to select a font color for the caption text.
Caption style
text is displayed.)
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(There is only one text caption style for a transparent caption because only