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cpbrandon
cpbrandon
Inspiring
June 25, 2019
Question

Designate default Master Slide?

  • June 25, 2019
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Hi. I assume this has been discussed somewhere, but I'm not having any luck finding information on it. I have a question about Master slides.

First, I'm using Captivate 2019, updated to v11.5.0.476, running Windows 10. I have created a custom theme with many Master slides - 28 to be exact. Our team develops software simulations for our company's solutions.

Issue:

Whenever I apply this theme to a new project, one particular Master slide is always applied to the first slide. Similarly, if I paste in slides this same Master slide is always applied.

My question:

Is there a way to designate one of my other Master slides as the one that gets applied initially by default?

(This slide is the fourth Master slide listed in my Master Slide view. I'd like to pick a different one.)

Any info is helpful!

Thanks!

Brandon

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
June 25, 2019

Use the menu Insert, New slide from and you'll see part of the master slide panel in vertical mode. Since you can rearrange the sequence of master slides in the Master slide panel, I recommend to drag the most used master slides to the start of the panel.

BTW: software simulations recorded with Captivate do use the Blank master side, make sure it remains blank.

cpbrandon
cpbrandonAuthor
Inspiring
June 26, 2019

Thanks. I like the Insert > New Slide From option for adding slides directly to the project. I'll remember that.

I still cannot move/rearrange all my master slides as I'd like. For some reason, I am able to move some but others cannot be moved. Is this still a known issue, or is this supposed to be fixed?

I will play around with the sequence of the Master slides that I can move and see if I can get a different one to be used as the default.

Thanks again.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
June 26, 2019

The functionality of rearranging master slides (exception for quiz master slides) was lost in the first version of CP2019. It is back now in 11.5.

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