CP4: I set preferences, but I'm not seeing all the fruit of my labor

[Richards_Daddy]

My preferences under Recording > Defaults are all intact and were reflected in my current .cp file. However, nothing I've done under Global > Defaults is in my most recent .cp (specifically object defaults). What did I do wrong? Do I need to make a .cpr file? No one else in my company uses Captivate, so not sure why/if I'd need to export anything.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Lilybiri]

Hello,

Could you provide more details? What did you change in the Preferences, that doesn't seem to work?

Lilybiri

[Richards_Daddy]

Hi, Lilybiri! Go to Preferences > Global > Defaults, and in the right pane, in the Object defaults section, expand the Select drop-down menu. Any of those to which an effect could be assigned, I assigned No transition. Absolutely none of that is showing up in my .cp; all those elements have Fade in and out as the effect, though No transition is what I see when I look at the preferences menu from the .cp.

Anything I did in Preferences > Recording > Defaults is in my .cp file.

Make sense?

[Lilybiri]

Hello,

OK, fired up CP4 (has been a long time) to try out. I have both changed Preferences before opening a file (to have them set for all files) and after opening file (set for that file only) and the objects that I do insert on slides are very obedient to my Preferences changes. Are you talking about objects that you do insert or about objects that are inserted during capture?

Lilybiri

[Richards_Daddy]

Lilybiri, I think you just answered the question without knowing it. I changed the preferences with a file open. Furthermore, these are elements such as highlight boxes and captions that are inserted while recording. So, I need to change these preferences before I open a file. Do I do that from the starter screen? How do I do it?