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Hi-
I'm trying to make a presentation that only uses one box in the screen, and has the remainder of the screen used for navigating the presentation and giving info on the presenter. I'm hoping to get advice on how to make a template for this type of presentation. I've played around w/ Captivate to try and make the template, but it doesn't look nearly as good as this presentation I saw made by someone else. Any insights on how to make a template like this would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Thomas
The twelve boxes on the bottom of the screen navigate to different points w/in the presentation.
Hello,
For your first question, Rick already gave some suggestions.
He knows that I'm a Photoshop fan since many years, do use it for my buttons (and for about everything graphic), but you really do not need such a complex program. I think buttons can be made with any imaging software. And mostly you can add text on a graphic, in Photoshop I use layers for that purpose, but again you may see that as overkill.
As for your second question: nor a click box, nor a button can be configured to stay for t
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Is there a different product I should use to make the template other than Captivate?
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Hello,
Do you need this template for different CP-files? Because anyway you'll have to configure each button to make the right jump, or will it always be to exactly the same slide (p.e. button 1 jumps to slide 2, button 2 jumps to slide 10,etc). And what will be in the template besides this first navigation slide? The jumps can only be configured when the slides exist (even blank slides are possible).
Lilybiri
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Thanks for your response, Lilybiri .
I'm just wanting to develop this single template slide that I will use throughout each presentation I make (I'll put in different text in each navigation box for each presentation).
For making the buttons line up next to each other and designing the template slide is Captivate the best program, or is another program better to use and import the template?
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Hello,
You can use Captivate for this template. Will you use Text buttons and replace the text on the button when creating a project from the Template? From your screenshot I'd believe you will use your proper Image buttons (easier to create it with the proper formatting in any image editing software). It could perhaps be a good idea to label the buttons: But1_1, But1_2 ... for buttons on the first line,...
As for aligning, could offer some tips:
Should have been quicker to make a video, hope you understand my workflow.
Lilybiri
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Hi Lilybiri-
Thanks for your help. A couple follow-up questions: (1) Is there a certain program for creating buttons that you find easier to use? When creating buttons, is there a way to make them have a certain look (using an image) but then be able to have text as part of the button? (2) Is there a way to make a button stay on the screen for the remainder of the presentation like you can do for images and other text? I know I can make it appear for the rest of the slide, but don't see how to do it for the remainder of presentation.
Thanks again.
Thomas
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Hi Thomas
Of course I'm not Lilybiri, but hopefully she won't mind my offering a link or two for buttons...
I really like Vista Buttons.
And there are a gob of free button making pages on the web. Just use Google using the terms "Button Maker" or "Button Generator" to find some. Here is a link to one of them.
Cheers... Rick
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Hello,
For your first question, Rick already gave some suggestions.
He knows that I'm a Photoshop fan since many years, do use it for my buttons (and for about everything graphic), but you really do not need such a complex program. I think buttons can be made with any imaging software. And mostly you can add text on a graphic, in Photoshop I use layers for that purpose, but again you may see that as overkill.
As for your second question: nor a click box, nor a button can be configured to stay for the rest of the project. But you can easily copy a button (or a selection of buttons) from one slide to several other slides: select them, copy them to the clipboard, select all the slides where you want them to appear and paste. If the buttons have an action (on Success) attached to jump to a specific slide, this action will be copied with them, so the jump will be correct for all the copied buttons. There are other workarounds, but this is the most simple one.
Hope this helps,
Lilybiri
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Thanks, Rick and Lilybiri.