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Select one of the following in the Variable Type menu:
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To insert a variable that you have previously created, select User. Select the variable from the Variables menu.
For more information, see
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To insert a system variable, select System. Select a system variable from the Variables menu. To filter system
variables by their category, select the corresponding option from the View By menu. When you do not choose
a category, all the system variables are listed in the menu.
To change the maximum number of characters that the variable can accommodate, enter a value in the Maximum
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Length field. If the number of characters exceed the value specified in this field, the extra characters are not
displayed.
Note: Spaces are also considered for the character count.
To create a variable or to change the values of a selected variable, click Variables.
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Click OK.
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When you preview the project, the value of the variable is displayed inside the text caption.
Insert symbols and special characters
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In the Format area of Properties Inspector, click the Insert button.
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Select a symbol that you want to insert from the menu.
For more options, click Other, select the character that you want to insert, and then click OK.
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Add text captions automatically during recording
When you record projects or record additional slides for projects, Adobe Captivate can automatically create text
captions based upon the action recorded. For example, if you record the action of selecting the File menu, Adobe
Captivate can automatically add a text caption that reads "Select File menu" on the same slide.
Actions that generate text captions include the following: selecting menus and menu items; pressing buttons; changing
values in locations such as lists, combo boxes, or check boxes; and opening child windows.
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In an open project, select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Adobe Captivate > Preferences (Mac OS).
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In the Preferences dialog box, select Modes under the Recording menu.
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Select the mode of recording for which you want to automatically generate the text captions.
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Select Add Text Captions.
After you finish recording and the project is generated (including the automatically created captions), view the
individual slides in Edit mode to see the captions.
Note: Adobe Captivate can automatically generate text captions for all standard Windows user interface elements. It
might not, however, support nonstandard user interface elements, including menu text in applications created with
Delphi®.
Edit text captions
Edit a text caption
If you are resizing a text caption, you cannot make the text caption smaller than the bitmap used to create the text
caption. For example, the text caption style "Pill" uses bitmaps sized approximately 18 pixels (wide) x 16 pixels (high),
so these bitmaps could not be resized to 15 x 12 pixels. However, any of the text caption bitmaps can be made larger.
If you need very small text captions, consider creating custom captions.
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"Create a user-defined
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