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matthewb87260969
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June 13, 2017
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Captivate 8 Remove TOC Title

  • June 13, 2017
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HI all. Is there are hack or workaround to delete the TOC title in Captivate? So in the image below, I'd like to delete the "Employee Handbook" section and move the entire TOC up. I'd like to remove (not just hide) the "Module Name" as well. I know that it can be hidden in a couple of different ways, but I'm looking to buy more TOC real estate by deleting elements that are not needed. Any ideas? I'm pretty handy as a programmer, so any and all ideas would be appreciated.

As an editorial note -- I've seen through a cursory search that users have pleaded for greater control over the TOC since at least CP 4. I have no earthly idea why Adobe isn't listening to its professional clients and meeting our needs. Allow it to be easy for casual users, but it would be nice to have more "advanced" functionality available for those of us who are a little more handy with source code. Ok, rant over...

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      Lilybiri
      Lilybiri
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      June 13, 2017

      Did you log a feature request? Only when enough users do post a request will it be heard. Apparently not so many 'professional' users did ask for it.

      That Title is found under the Info button for the TOC settings, replace it by a space and it will be gone. However that will not move the TOC up. It is in that same region that an Info button can be found which offers more details from the Info settings.

      Why not create a custom TOC that you make available through a button on each slide? That is a perfect alternative if you are an advanced Captivate user.

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      matthewb87260969Author
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      June 13, 2017

      Thanks Lily. Yes, I can see where all the settings are for the various labels and settings in the TOC. It's easy enough to access those. I've been a user of Adobe products since long before they purchased Macromedia, so I know the menus, etc... I was hoping to find a quick and dirty workaround to the TOC formatting issue and gain some much-needed real estate.

      I'm not sure why you seemed to take offense by my use of the word "professional." Perhaps I should have used the word "corporate." If I'm creating a training for 8,000 users that requires a turnaround of a week, that is a much different type of development environment than someone doing a little side consulting work putting out a training piece for a small entity. I'm not attempting to create great-looking artistic piece. I'm taking the objectives and needs of my internal clients and attempting to use good ID to output something that metrics will support as being part of a positive outcome.

      And I would hope to not to have to create a custom TOC. I could do that, of course, but that isn't the point. As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of using Captivate is to save time and to create training quickly. If I want to create a highly customized training piece, I'm probably going to use a different tool and create the infrastructure from the ground up.

      Perhaps you're right, Lily. Perhaps Adobe does not have many clients calling for changes to the TOC. Pity. But it is what it is.

      Lilybiri
      Lilybiri
      Legend
      June 13, 2017

      I have been using Captivate since version 1 ...

      That word 'professional' is so much used at any occasion, just like the word 'expert' which is indeed frustrating.  How many feature requests do you log regularly?  I spent quite a lot of time logging bugs and requests, but maybe I'm not professional enough

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