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Anonymous
June 24, 2015
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How do I turn off clicking to advance to the next slide?

  • June 24, 2015
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I want to force users to click buttons on a slide in order to navigate to different slides in the presentation (import from PPTX). But I only see options in building a project to click to advance to next slide or automatic. I want neither. The problem is that when users click the buttons, it's advancing to the next slide instead of going to the button destination.

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s88mktgteam
s88mktgteam
Participating Frequently
June 24, 2015

If you put buttons in your slide that you want the user to use instead of the player, you should be able to go to Themes/Skin Editor, and uncheck the playbar buttons. To make the buttons go to a particular slide, you would select the button, click on actions in the properties panel, and under "On Success", select "Jump to Slide" and find the slide you want the user to go to from that button. I hope that makes sense.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
June 24, 2015

@88university...   you seem to misunderstand the question. The problem here is about the click box that is added to the PPT-slides, and covers up the total slide, I don't see any question about the playbar. Problem here is that any added interactive object will be in the same location as the click box, and that click box has the default action 'Go to Next Slide'.

@joeslevine If I'm wrong with my interpretation of your question, please let me know.

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Anonymous
June 24, 2015

OK, I think I have a kludgy solution. If I size the "click box" down to the bottom of the screen (getting it out of the way), then I can make the buttons take precedence. The weird thing is that if I just remove the click box entirely (which seemed logical), then weird things start happening -- it's almost as if automatic advancing takes over in the absence of a click box.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
June 24, 2015

If you import PPT-slides, each slide is converted to a movie. You cannot control anything separately, it will play the way the PPT was set up.

If you delete a click box, or drag it off the stage, it is normal that playing will happen automatically, that is normal, since you don't have a pausing point anymore. The automatic added click box is sized to the whole slide, to mimick the behavior of PPT, click on the slide to advance. You can indeed resize the click box, and then add other interactive objects.

Just FYI it is not a good idea not to start from scratch, but to import PPT-slides because you lose all control. Captivate is an eLearning tool, not a PPT-converter (there are other tools for that).

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Anonymous
June 24, 2015

Thanks -- Yes, resizing the click box does seem to do the trick. I'm confused about your comments about PPT. My impression was that it's a common thing to do layout in PPT and then import into Captivate.

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