Editing Slides - Adobe 65029940 - Captivate - PC Using Manual

Editing slides

After you have recorded, imported, created, or copied slides into a Captivate project, you can edit
the slide in numerous ways.
Duplicating slides
You can duplicate slides in Storyboard view or Edit view (with the Filmstrip enabled).
Duplicating slides is an easy way to expand your movies. For example, if you carefully design a
slide with a certain background color, layout, caption, and highlight box, you can simply
duplicate that slide and change some of the elements or text to add more information to your
movie.
To duplicate slides:
Open a Captivate movie.
1.
Do one of the following:
2.
Right-click on the slide to copy and select Duplicate Slide.
Select a slide and press Control+D.
Tip: To select multiple slides, press Shift or Control on the keyboard while clicking on the
desired slides. To select all slides press Control+A or from the Edit menu, select Select All
Slides.
The slide or slides you selected are duplicated and placed in the movie. You can edit and work
with the new slides just like the original slides.
Copying slides to the clipboard
Captivate provides an easy way to copy a slide to the clipboard. You can then paste the slide into a
graphics editing program (for example, Fireworks or Photoshop), edit the slide, and then paste
the slide back into Captivate. This is a useful feature, particularly if you don't have much time
and need to make a small change to a slide.
For example, suppose your movie is nearly done when you discover that one slide, a screen shot of
a web browser, contains an address line showing an internal company server address. To quickly
solve the problem, copy the slide to the clipboard, open the slide in Macromedia Fireworks,
"erase" the information in the address field by painting over it with the color white, save the slide
as an image (e.g., JPEG), and then from Captivate, paste the image back into the movie. When
you edit slides in this way, you don't need to re-record.
Note: When you copy a slide to the clipboard, only the slide background is copied any objects on the
slide are not copied. You can paste the slide (now saved as an image) back into the same location in
the movie and any objects originally associated with the slide appear on the new image slide.
To copy a slide to the clipboard:
Open a Captivate project in Edit view.
1.
Select the slide that you want to copy as a bitmap.
2.
From the Edit menu, select Copy Background.
3.
128 Chapter 10: Slides