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Last updated 4/22/2010
To edit a text caption, use the Properties Inspector (Window > Properties).
If you have a detailed slide that contains text captions and other objects, you might want to make the text caption a
permanent part of the background.
Copy text captions
You can copy and paste text captions between slides. This is a great time-saver, especially if you use the same text
caption on multiple slides.
In an open project, select the slide containing the text caption you want to copy.
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Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the text caption and select Copy.
2
Navigate to the slide where you want to paste the caption.
3
Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) in the slide and select Paste.
4
You can copy and paste more than one text caption at a time by Control-clicking (Windows) or Command-clicking
(Mac OS) the text captions. Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) one of the selected text captions and
choose Copy.
Moving and resizing text captions
You can resize text captions manually or automatically and move text captions to new locations on a slide. To move
text captions on a slide, select the text caption, and drag it to the new location.
Note: If you are resizing a text caption, you cannot make the caption smaller than the bitmap used to create the caption.
For example, the 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 caption bitmaps can be made larger. If you need very small
captions, consider creating custom captions.
Manually resize a text caption
To manually resize a text caption, select the text caption, and move the pointer over the selection handles. When the
pointer becomes a resize handle, drag the mouse to resize the object.
Automatically resize text captions
Adobe Captivate can automatically resize a text caption according to the amount of text in the text caption. If you edit
the text, the caption is resized to accommodate the altered text. This is an easy way to keep your text captions looking
balanced and proportional.
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In an open project, select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Adobe Captivate > Preferences (Mac OS).
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In the Category panel, select Defaults from the Global menu.
Select Autosize Captions.
3
Change text caption order using the Timeline
Adobe Captivate lets you add multiple captions to each slide. You can specify the order in which these captions appear
using the Timeline. The Timeline enables you to precisely adjust the timing of all objects, including captions, on a slide.
1
In an open project, navigate to the slide containing the captions whose order you want to change.
2
In the Timeline (Window > Timeline), change the order and timing of captions as required.
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For example, move the mouse over the left or right edge of a caption on the Timeline until the resize cursor
appears. Then drag the edge left or right. This changes when the caption appears or disappears and how long it
is shown.
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