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kbarcroft
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April 8, 2008
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Bullet Points

  • April 8, 2008
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Good Morning Everyone

When creating a presentation in Captivate how do you create bulletpoints and insert them into the presentation?

Apologies for what is probably a stupid question but I can't appear to be able to find this facility

Many thanks in advance

Regards
Kevin
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    tiolorf
    Known Participant
    April 13, 2008
    Hi all,

    Another way to do this is to make the text and buttons in a separate program (Flash or Word) and then import that into Captivate (via .swf or picture). Admittedly, not very elegant.

    tiolorf
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    kbarcroftAuthor
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    April 12, 2008
    Hello Everyone

    Many thanks for all your help and advice. It looks as though you're all singing from the same hymnn-sheet on this one.

    I hope the developers can address this issue with a future release, as if you're typing out a 60 slide induction program, it would take for ever - just with the bullet-points alone.

    The one point I must voice, is that I've been amazed how many great people there are on these forums who take the time to post answers (to what some of you must believe are trivial or stupid questions) from slow non-technical people such as my self. You all save newbies like me many, many hours of frustration and I personally cannot thank you guys enough

    Kindest regards
    Kevin
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    updatechk
    Known Participant
    April 8, 2008
    Hi ya Kevin:

    If your bullets are part of a text animation, the only way I can figure to do it is either use the asterisk or hyphen (yuk) or to do what was suggested above by creating a separate image containing your bullet and having it reveal on the timeline at the same time and in the same relative location at your text.

    Ideally you could select multiple fonts within an animation. That way you could select wingdings or some other symbol font, make your bullet, then change fonts and do the rest of your text. But, alas, not an option.

    G'luck.
    ...Lola
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    jojolina
    Inspiring
    April 8, 2008
    Hi All

    Just to clarify something, in your caption boxes you can select bullets as Rick correctly says, but if you want to use e.g. wingdings to create jazzy bullets this is also possible as you can specify different fonts within a single caption. In other words, use a wingding character for the bullet, hit space bar, change font and write your text.

    If none of this helped, then please ignore me!!

    Cheers

    Andrew
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    AMAC5TH
    Known Participant
    April 8, 2008
    Kevin,

    Another option is to choose Insert... Animation and navigate to the Bullets folder in SWF Animation (go up a few levels typically). Here you will find some fancy bullets in SWF format - very useful but limited selection.

    As Andrew says, you can create bullet effects by using symbols in Wingdings, Webdings etc. I find the best way to do this is to use the Insert Symbol dialog box in Word to paste to insert it into a document and then copy it directly to a text caption in Captivate, then format as appropriate. Bit easier to see I think ...

    Another thing to consider with the image bullet idea mentioned by cybersha is to actually create the shapes in PowerPoint and copy them over as an image. Thats a useful way to create custom shapes etc. in Captivate. There is an article in the KnowledgeBase somewhere which documents the process in more detail.

    Hope this helps,

    Alex.
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    kalpanakathir
    Known Participant
    April 8, 2008
    Hi kevin

    Create a bullet and save it as an image. Then inset this image in the slides whereever required.

    If you are using this bullet with text. Then set time for the bullet and text so that both appears at same time.

    Try it.
    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
    Legend
    April 8, 2008
    Hi Kevin

    In addition to what cybersha offered up, I'll add the following.

    Sounds to me as if you are referring to Text Captions? And if so, you have a standard icon that will add bullet points. However, this assumes you are only wanting standard bullets. If you are after specialized bullets that are composed of images, then what cybersha offered is the typical approach.

    Cheers... Rick
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