Adobe CAPTIVATE 5 Help Manual page 49

Last updated 4/22/2010
The slide or slides you selected are duplicated and placed in the project. You can edit and work with the new slides just
like the original slides.
Insert blank slides
1 In an open project, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the slide after which you want the new blank
slide or slides to appear.
2 Select Insert > Slide > Blank Slide.
The new slide is added to your project. You can edit and work with the new slide just like other slides in the project.
Insert images as slides
Image slides are slides that have an image inserted into their background.
Open an Adobe Captivate project.
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Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the slide after which you want the new image slide or slides to
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appear.
Select Insert > Slide > Image Slide.
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Browse to and select the image that you want to import in the Open dialog box.
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If the image that you are trying to import is larger in dimensions than that of your slide, the Resize/Crop Image
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dialog box appears. Do one of the following:
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Select Fit To Stage if you want to resize the image to the dimensions of the slide.
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Select Crop, and resize the handles of the rectangular box that appears to select the portion of the image that you
want displayed.
Insert slides from a PowerPoint presentation
You can add PowerPoint slides to the end of a project or within a project.
In an open project, select Insert > Slide > PowerPoint slide.
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Select a PowerPoint presentation and click Open.
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Select Import Slides and Insert After The Selected Slide Below to add new slides after the slide you select from the
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list and click OK.
In the Convert PowerPoint Presentations dialog box, do the following:
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• Clear the Include check box of a slide to exclude from importing.
• Clear the Linked check box to remove the linkage to the source PowerPoint file.
• Specify how the slides must advance: Automatically or upon the click of mouse.
Insert animation slides
You can insert a SWF, AVI, or animated GIF file as a new slide.
Note: Adding animation as a slide is most appropriate with larger animation files.
1 In an open project select Insert > Slide > Animation Slide.
2 Navigate to the animation file you want to insert (SWF, AVI, or animated GIF) and click Open. The animation slide
is generated and added to the project.
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