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Captivate 5: Changing symbols for bullet lists?

Aug 24, 2011 9:06 AM

Greetings,
I am working with Captivate 5.0. I’d like to change the symbols for some of my bulleted lists. How can I do that in Captivate 5?
In previous versions of Captivate (2 through 4) I could export my “Project Captions and Closed Captions” to a Word document, change the bullet symbols in the document, then import that Word document file into my project. This worked rather well, all the bullets would be as I changed them in Word. I could also adjust the relative spacing, leading, color, size and font of the items.
This does not seem to work with Captivate 5.
I go through the routine of exporting the captions to Word and changing them. When I import them into my project I still get the “disk”, “square” and “circle” (no change). Also any other formatting such as spacing, color and font does no hold.
I have tried using the Object Style Manager to control this behavior and there appears to be nothing I can do with this control to help.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there any documentation or help files for doing this?
Thank you,
TPK

815 Views   6 Replies   Latest reply: Lilybiri, Aug 24, 2011 12:28 PM
 
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  • Captiv8r
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    1. Captiv8r,
    Aug 24, 2011 9:17 AM   in reply to TPK
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    Hi there

     

    Indeed this is one of the improvements brought about by Captivate 5. I don't believe a workaround exists other than downgrading to 4.

     

    I think your only recourse is to either revert to 4 to make those edits or to file a Bug Report/Feature Request asking Adobe to consider adding back the functionality into 6.

     

    Cheers... Rick

     

    Helpful and Handy Links

    Captivate Wish Form/Bug Reporting Form

    Adobe Certified Captivate Training

    SorcerStone Blog

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    2. TPK,
    Aug 24, 2011 9:50 AM   in reply to Captiv8r
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    Thank you Rick,

     

    I was afraid of that. Generally, I like Captivate 5, but a few of the changes are somewhat frustrating. This is one of them. I have filed both a feature enhancement and a bug report for this.

     

    After looking at the Object Style Manager I had the thought that a really nice enhancement would be to be able to create Style Profiles that could be globally applied to a Project.

     

    For example, have a means to group various Captions, Buttons, Templates, etc into a Named Style. Create several of these and be able to apply them to projects and make changes to all the elements within the project. It would certainly streamline converting old projects with an old style into an updated style.

     

    Thank you for your reply,

     

    TPK

     
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    3. Lilybiri,
    Aug 24, 2011 9:51 AM   in reply to TPK
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    Is exporting/importing styles not doing what you want?

     

    Lilybiri

     
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    4. TPK,
    Aug 24, 2011 11:33 AM   in reply to Lilybiri
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    Hi Lilybiri,

     

    Yes, you are correct, the Export (document to Word) -> Change (document) -> Import (changed Word file) into Project does not work like it did in (all) earlier versions of Captivate.

     

    In earlier versions I could Export the Captions to a Word document, alter List formatting and apply various symbols to bullet list, then Import the (changed) Captions into a project and have (visually) interesting bullet lists. As an example, I could change the "disk" bullet to "check mark" and my list items would have check marks. I could do this with any font I chose. My team where I work really liked this. It made the lessons a little less boring.

     

    Now I have to figure out a work around.

     

    TPK

     
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    5. TPK,
    Aug 24, 2011 11:35 AM   in reply to TPK
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    Hi Lilybiri,

     

    One other thing, I could also change the font characteristice in the Captions, such as color, font style, font type, etc and the import would come in true. Now it is as if the Export/Import feature does nothing.

     

    TPK

     
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  • Lilybiri
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    6. Lilybiri,
    Aug 24, 2011 12:28 PM   in reply to TPK
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    Export/Import will change the content of the captions, but the formatting is now 'obedient' to the object styles applied.


    The text engine is totally different from previous CP-versions, and previous there were no object styles. So formatting cannot be changed by copy/paste or the 'styles' concept would be lost.

     

    I agree that being able to have more bullet symbols would be welcome and some other formatting possibilities, have been asking for them as well.


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