Apply To All setting not working..

Hi smejus57

I'm very curious as to how you are attempting to use this utility to add "Slide Accessibility". I'm not sure the Apply to All function is intended to work for that aspect.

I think that sometimes you will see mixed results with that utility. Not that it has a bug, but the very sequence of things can cause you to pause and wonder. Please allow me to explain.

If you have perhaps 5 captions on a slide and you use this, you may see nothing happen or you may see that all captions suddenly perform what seems to be a disappearing act. Huh?

Here's the deal. Let's say you have a slide with three captions. Each caption is using a different type. One is Adobe Green, the second is Adobe Red and the third is Adobe Blue. You edit the Adobe Red and changed it to use perhaps Cosmos. You click the OK button to save the changes and the dialog disappears. Then you think, oh wait! I wanted all the captions to change to the Cosmos type. So you double-click the caption to get at the "Apply to All" setting. You click to place the check mark, then click the Settings button. You make sure you are only applying the changed settings and click the Close button. You then click the OK button on the slide and... (drum roll please) TaDa!!! Absolutely NOTHING happens. Nothing happened here because from Captivate's standpoint, nothing changed. You had already clicked OK initially. You made your changes and dismissed the dialog. So the key here is to ensure that you open the dialog and make a change in order to have Captivate recognize it. And unfortunately, it's not sufficient to perhaps click a different caption type momentarily, then click back to what you wanted. If you had Cosmos selected when you opened the dialog, switching to perhaps Failure, then back to Cosmos won't make it think a change has occurred.

If you apply all properties you may also have unexpected consequences. You will probably end up with all your captions placed and sized identically. They are stacked up, so the appearance is that the others were deleted. This is seldom the desired behavior, but may accomplish what you want if the condition I described earlier is the case. Once you do this, you will need to rearrange the captions as desired.

Hopefully this helps... Rick