Adobe CAPTIVATE 5 Help Manual page 119

Last updated 4/22/2010
Position and Size
Use this section to define the exact size or location of the buttons in terms of pixels.
Position of the button on the X-axis
X
Position of the button on the Y-axis.
Y
Width of the button.
W
Height of the button.
H
Maintains the height-to-width ratio of the button when you resize it.
Constrain Proportions
Properties of review buttons
The Review button is present on the quiz results slide. When users click the Review button, they are presented with a
slide that provides a report of the questions that were answered correctly and incorrectly. It also provides the correct
answers to all the questions. The properties of review buttons are similar to those of normal buttons.
More Help topics
"Set quiz preferences" on page 155
Add a button
Note: Resize any buttons before resizing the project. Resizing a project does not resize the buttons automatically.
1 Open the slide to which you want to add a button.
2 Select Insert > Standard Objects > Button.
Note: You can delete a button at any time by selecting it and pressing the Delete key. When you delete a button, all
associated objects (such as success and failure captions) are also deleted.
The button appears on the slide.
3 Size and drag the button as desired.
4 Double-click the Success, Failure, or Hint captions to edit the text.
5 To change the properties of the text entry box, click the box and change the properties in the Property inspector.
Automatically resize buttons
You can configure Adobe Captivate to automatically resize a button or caption according to the amount of text in the
button. If you edit the text, the button changes size to accommodate the new text.
In an open project, select Edit > Preferences (on Windows) or Adobe Captivate > Preferences (Mac OS).
1
In the Preferences dialog box, select Defaults under the Global menu.
2
Select Autosize Buttons in the General panel on the right.
3
Modify buttons on question slides
You can modify some properties of buttons on question slides. The standard buttons are Clear, Back, Submit, and Skip.
1 Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the question button that you want to modify.
Select Properties.
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