Displaying Confirmation Messages - Adobe CAPTIVATE 2-USING CAPTIVATE Use Manual

Displaying confirmation messages

Confirmation messages appear when you perform important, and often permanent, actions in
Adobe Captivate. The confirmation messages give you one more opportunity to change your
mind when deleting information or changing key attributes. If you find that certain messages are
not necessary for the way you work or are slowing down your development time, you might want
to disable confirmation messages for actions that you perform frequently.
To display or not display confirmation messages:
Open an Adobe Captivate project.
1.
From the Options menu, select Preferences.
2.
Select the actions you want to confirm, and/or remove the check mark from actions you do not
3.
want to confirm.
Delete object
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Delete slide
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Project resize
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action that cannot be "undone," so it is a good idea to display a confirmation message for
this action.)
Video quality change
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Remove audio
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Cancel audio changes
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example, adjusting volume, cutting and pasting sections, and so on).
Check audio input levels
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microphones or recording devices).
Frame rate change
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changing the frame rate.
FLA export instructions
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exporting an Adobe Captivate project into Flash.
Publish overwrite files
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publishing files to the same location more than once. (For example, you publish to Flash
and create a SWF file stored in a particular location. If you publish to Flash again, creating a
SWF file and saving it to the same location, a confirmation message will display asking if
you want to overwrite the existing file.)
Change audio
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slide with existing audio.
Extend item
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longer than the object's duration.
Remove item from Library
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Sharing of audio
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slide.
Duplicating of audio
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slide.
Displays a message before an object is removed.
Displays a message before a slide is removed.
Displays a message before a project is resized. (Resizing a project is an
Displays a message before the quality of a slide is changed.
Displays a message before audio is deleted.
Displays a message before canceling any audio changes (for
Displays a message before changing audio input levels (for
Select this option to have a confirmation message appear before
Select this option to have a confirmation message appear when
Select this option to have a confirmation message appear when
Displays a message while recording, importing, or adding new audio to a
Displays a message if you add audio to an object when the audio's duration is
Displays a message when you delete an item from the Library.
Displays a message when you change an audio that is used on another
Displays a message when you add an audio that is already on another
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