In Captivate 4, I am using powerpoint import to create a presentation with audio, that can be sent via exe. Everything is dead simple, except one thing. I want to use the default skin for the playback controls (rather than create my own buttons to do exactly the same thing). But for those without a mouse, I want them to be able to skip forward and backward through slides using the keyboard. I would expect to just be able to use the cursor keys, but I can't seem to assign any key to move through the slides. It works fine when you point the mouse and click on the playback controls obviously. I would have thought this must be there somewhere as it is a basic accesability feature.
Is there something easy I am missing, or can Captivate really not do this without designing my own playback controls using buttons, etc?
Cheers, Andy
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Since the playback controls don't seem to support operating using keystrokes, I'm thinking you might wish to enhance your project by adding Click Boxes to each slide. Configure one Click Box on Slide 1 to simply "Go to next slide" and assign a shortcut key of the Right Arrow. Tuck it out of the way in a corner. Its only purpose will be to allow the user to pres the Right Arrow to advance. Then copy it and paste it across all slides.
Repeat with a second Click Bo...
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Since the playback controls don't seem to support operating using keystrokes, I'm thinking you might wish to enhance your project by adding Click Boxes to each slide. Configure one Click Box on Slide 1 to simply "Go to next slide" and assign a shortcut key of the Right Arrow. Tuck it out of the way in a corner. Its only purpose will be to allow the user to pres the Right Arrow to advance. Then copy it and paste it across all slides.
Repeat with a second Click Box. But this one would have an action of "Go to previous slide". Assign the Left Arrow to this one.
Hopefully this helps... Rick
Hi there
Not being a Flash programmer I cannot say how simple it might be to achieve. I might think that if you are totally familiar with Flash it would be a fairly simple task. Then again, the workaround I proposed is simple too and would take less than two minutes to achieve.
Your call... Rick 
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Hi again
Yes it seems messy at first. But hopefully you realize you can configure and place only one of the little beasties, then copy it. Select all the remaining slides in the Filmstrip or in Storyboard view, then paste in a single action.
Please don't let that dissuade you in any way from learning Flash. I've got it on my own radar to learn as well. Perhaps my third attempt will finally be the magick one that sticks and finally makes it make sense. 
I must be thick headed. Then again, during the second Flash class the instructor started off by saying "Flash is probably *THE* most unintuitive application you will ever try to learn."
Cheers... Rick
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