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MARCH 25, 2014

During my beginner Adobe Captivate class , I am often asked if it's possible to ensure that learners do not leave a Text Entry Box (TEB) blank.   We offer live, online training on Adobe Captivate, Articulate Storyline, Adobe Presenter, and TechSmith Camtasia Studio.We by Lori Smith. Interested? 

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JUNE 28, 2011

You'll be happy to hear that all is well in the new Adobe Captivate 5.5. Check out the image below: Adobe is now providing quiz templates.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer  Beginner and Advanced classes. Both and then some. Which brings me to my favorite Captivate 5.5

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MARCH 7, 2023

When I teach my Adobe Captivate beginner vILT classes , we cover application Preferences fairly early. If If you're on a Mac, choose Adobe Captivate > Preferences. According to Adobe, the Project Cache folder contains all of your projects' components until you click the Clear Cache button.

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MAY 31, 2011

by Kevin Siegel Adobe announced the immediate availability of Adobe Captivate 5.5 Looking to learn Adobe Captivate? We offer  Beginner and Advanced classes. Both late last week. Over the next few weeks, I'll be spotlighting some of the new features here. version looks almost identical to version 5.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

During one of my recent beginner Adobe Captivate classes, a student asked if it was possible to maintain two quizzes within a single Captivate project. Looking for training on Adobe Captivate? Adobe''s Technical Communication Suite Captivate eLearning mLearning Technical Communications Technology training'

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AUGUST 24, 2010

.   If you're using Adobe Captivate 5 there's a handy dandy SlideNumbering widget that lets you put the slide count on any/all of your project slides using the format you like (e.g. What's that you say, you're still using Adobe Captivate 4? we still offer two online classes for Captivate 4, Beginner and Advanced.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

For more information on restarting lists, see " Adobe FrameMaker: How to Restart a Numbered List." We offer both beginner and advanced FrameMaker training. Adobe FrameMaker Adobe''s Technical Communication Suite FrameMaker Technical Communications Technology training UA User Assistance'

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

In Adobe Captivate 5: Create a Standard Advanced Action ( Project > Advanced Actions ) as shown below.   In Adobe Captivate 4:   You can do the same thing as above, but the Captivate 4 interface is a tad different than version 5.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5? Attach the Action to the first slide.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

      In fact, filling in the fields within the Project Information window is so important, and so simple, I encourage my beginner Captivate students to fill it in as well. From a beginner perspective, the information can be displayed on a TOC, something you learn to do during class.). quote John.

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JULY 27, 2010

  Beginning with Adobe Captivate 4, and continuing in Captivate 5, you can create a link to a PowerPoint presentation during the import process by simply selecting the Link option on the Convert PowerPoint Presentations dialog box. we offer two online classes for Captivate 4, Beginner and Advanced. by Kevin Siegel.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Adobe ran some time trials on how long it took to publish a large project (254 slides) using Captivate 4. When Adobe created Captivate 5, they wanted to decrease your twiddle time. To that end, Adobe came up with a feature called the incremental publish engine.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5? How much time?

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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

by Kevin Siegel      During every  Captivate beginner class , time is spent on the second day teaching everyone how to use Captivate's Text-to-Speech feature to convert slide notes into speech. Looking for training on Adobe Captivate? Need the training in-person? We Interested? 

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JUNE 7, 2011

by Kevin Siegel One of the shortcomings with working with objects in Adobe Captivate has always been the inability to control the rotation of a selected object. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate? We offer  Beginner and Advanced classes. Both In fact, there are four tools in Captivate 5 and 5.5

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MAY 25, 2010

Adobe didn't just upgrade the program, they tore it down and rebuilt it. The new Captivate has a shiny new interface that more closely matches the other popular Adobe programs. we offer two online classes (Beginner and Advanced). Click here for details on the Beginner class. Looking to learn Captivate?

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JULY 31, 2011

Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer Beginner and Advanced classes. Click the Export button. Create a folder (or open an existing folder) and click OK. Navigate to the folder and you'll find your audio files. Both Windows and Macintosh developers can attend these classes.

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DECEMBER 7, 2011

by Kevin Siegel    You can import or record audio to just about anything in Adobe Captivate. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer Beginner  and  Advanced  classes. Both Right-click a slide and you'll find the exact same menu items.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When importing voiceover audio into Adobe Captivate, I always suggest that audio be added directly to the slide instead of objects on the slide ( Audio > Import to > Slide ).   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5? We offer  Beginner and Advanced classes, as well as a half-day course on Advanced Actions.

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

by Kevin Siegel    I received an SOS from a fellow Captivate developer who was having a hate-hate relationship with the mouse click sounds he was hearing in his Adobe Captivate demonstration.     Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer  Beginner  and Advanced  classes. Both

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Adobe Captivate 5 offers an alternate reporting option to using an LMS: you can create a free account on Acrobat.com, and set the reporting preferences in a Captivate project so that the quiz results are uploaded to Acrobat.com. Type your Adobe ID and Password into the appropriate fields (you will need an Acrobat.com account to proceed).

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JUNE 21, 2011

While some of the new features in Adobe Captivate 5.5 such as the ability to free rotate and publish to Apple mobile devices ) have gotten all the fanfare since Adobe released the new software, one new feature has sat on the sideline, overshadowed by the others: Shadow. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate? by Kevin Siegel.

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OCTOBER 30, 2012

According to Adobe: "Use Branch Aware to calculate the final score based only on the questions in the branch that users have viewed. I don't know about you, but I find Adobe's description of Branch Aware to be confusing. Each button jumps to a different branch within the quiz (Beginner, Intermediate, Expert). 

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Take a look at the Insert menu in Adobe Captivate 5 and you'll see two similar commands: New Slide and Blank Slide. So the natural assumption would be that Adobe goofed when adding the menu items and one or the other should have been removed during the beta process.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5? Not so nice!

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JUNE 14, 2011

by Kevin Siegel Anyone who created eLearning lessons using any version of Adobe Captivate older than version 5 is painfully aware that Captivate does not offer publishing options for any of the Apple mobile devices (iPhone, iPad or iPod). The new Adobe Captivate 5.5 Looking to learn Adobe Captivate?

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APRIL 19, 2010

Selecting this option will create a PDF version of your project without the need to use Adobe Acrobat. Join me in May for training on Adobe Captivate. two classes (Beginner and Advanced). the Beginner class. Tags: Adobe's Technical Communication Suite Captivate eLearning mLearning. is a PDF option.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

we still offer two online classes for Captivate 4, Beginner and Advanced. Click here for details on the Beginner class. Tags: Adobe's Technical Communication Suite Captivate eLearning mLearning. Looking to learn Captivate? We have a couple of options. Click here for details on the Advanced class.

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APRIL 5, 2011

About the Author: Lori Smith is IconLogic's lead programmer and Adobe Captivate developer. Lori teaches our Adobe Captivate 5 Advanced Actions class. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5? We offer  Beginner and Advanced classes. Both no harm, no foul.

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MARCH 29, 2011

While you need Adobe Flash to create Widgets, you do not have to be a Flash developer, nor do you need to have Flash on your computer to insert Widgets into a Captivate project. If you are looking for additional Widgets, you can find page after page of both free and pay-for-use Widgets on the Adobe Captivate Widgets page.

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JUNE 7, 2010

we offer two online classes (Beginner and Advanced). Click here for details on the Beginner class. Tags: Adobe's Technical Communication Suite Captivate eLearning mLearning. We have a couple of options. Click here for details on the Advanced class. We also have a 3-hour class devoted to Advanced Actions.

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JUNE 15, 2010

we offer two online classes (Beginner and Advanced). Click here for details on the Beginner class. Tags: Adobe's Technical Communication Suite Captivate eLearning mLearning. We have a couple of options. Click here for details on the Advanced class. We also have a 3-hour class devoted to Advanced Actions.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

we still offer two online classes for Captivate 4, Beginner and Advanced. Click here for details on the Beginner class. Tags: Adobe's Technical Communication Suite Captivate eLearning mLearning. Looking to learn Captivate? We have a couple of options. Click here for details on the Advanced class.

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APRIL 12, 2011

    Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5? We offer  Beginner and Advanced classes. Both Keep in mind that when uploading your lesson to your web server, all of these files must be kept together, and in the same folder. Leave one of the resources behind, and the lesson will not play at all. 

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JULY 6, 2011

As you can see in the image below, Adobe overhauled the Timeline colors. Nice job Adobe! Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer Beginner and Advanced classes. So along comes Captivate 5.5 and now there's one less pet peeve in the world. If you have Captivate pet peeves , let me know.

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MAY 4, 2011

"   Who knows what she was talking about, but it made me smile because I hear the same thing all the time in my various Adobe training classes. Barbara has been a trainer for nearly two decades and has been recognized by Adobe as one of the top trainers world-wide.

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APRIL 19, 2011

If you resize a text caption or button in Adobe Captivate, and then edit the object's text at all, the object will do you a favor and resize. Display Captivate's Preferences (Edit menu for Windows users; Adobe Captivate menu for Mac users).   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5?

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AUGUST 3, 2011

by Kevin Siegel    You've captured a series of screens using Adobe Captivate. To test the effect, preview a few of your slides.)   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer  Beginner and Advanced classes. Both  Both Windows and Macintosh developers can attend these classes.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer Beginner and Advanced classes. There will not be any obvious changes to the Aggregator project at this point. However, when you publish the project the shared TOC will be removed and the combined lessons will play one after the other.

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MAY 15, 2012

by Kevin Siegel    During every  Captivate beginner class , time is spent on the second day teaching everyone how to use Captivate's Text-to-Speech feature to convert slide notes into speech.   Adobe Captivate Essentials  and  Adobe Captivate Beyond the Essentials (Advanced).

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