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September 13, 2013
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Captivate 7 Page Numbers

  • September 13, 2013
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Can anyone suggest how to page number in different sections .. For instance 4 sections (using branching) each section has 4 pages .. so one would get "page 1 of 4" etc for each section

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RodWard
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September 13, 2013

You can do this with custom user variables displayed in captions or shapes.  However, if you only have a few slides in each section and only a few sections to worry about, It's probably less work overall just to hard code the numbering into text captions on the slides.

Participant
September 13, 2013

Thanks Rod

However I have 20 pages in 5 sections .. and are there any articles anywhere out there helping and describing what to do

Richard

Lilybiri
Legend
September 13, 2013

Did you never use Advanced actions and variables? Because you posted this in the Advanced forum, wondering.

Create user variable v_section1 for first section, with default value of 0. Do this for each section. For the total numbers of slides within each section, think it will be easiest way to just type them in the text container.

Insert a text container on the first slide of that section and display it for the rest of the project, but you'll have to hide it when entering the next section. In tha text container put the text:

  page $$v_section1$$ of total number for that section.

Create a shared action that can be used on each slide of that section, and will be triggered on enter for each slide:

Expression v_section1 = v_section1 + 1

Continue                                                               maybe not necessary, depends on setup of the slide

At the start of the second section, on its first slide you'll have to hide the text container of the first section, another one should be there set to display for rest of project. This can be done by the action entering that first slide.

For the other sections you'll need a new shared action, because variables cannot be parameters.

Lilybiri