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jod-zeee
Inspiring
May 2, 2011
Question

Importing and editing PowerPoint (animations) in Captivate 5

  • May 2, 2011
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<banging head on desk> <and cursing>

I started my Captivate by importing a PowerPoint slide show. I've added audio and am doing most of the animation in PowerPoint since it's lots of bullets and some charts and things. I thought it'd be easier to manage this way and wanted to see how it all works since I'm new to version 5 of Captivate.

So I edit the PowerPoint, go back to Captivate, update the presentation and it seems to be working okay. Then I thought I'd try something different ... what if I edit just the slide so I don't have to wait for the entire thing to update?

IT WRECKED MY ANIMATION. (waaa!)

I spent a lot of time getting the animation perfect and the edit I made is the only thing now animated, the rest shows up as a group.

Did I do something wrong?

Is there a preferred way to work with Captivate and PPT together? Is it a crazy idea I have that I'm wanting to control the animation in PowerPoint?

Captivate doesn't have the control of working with paragraph level animation, does it?

Thanks,

Jo

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    May 3, 2011

    Hi Jo,

    Do I understand it all right: your issue was originated when you tried to edit one slide with the roundtripping from Captivate to Powerpoint? What is indicated in the Library besides the Presentation? Which version of PPT are you using?

    I prefer myself to have everything in Captivate, because imported PPT-animations are just FMR and editing in CP is cumbersome.  But the roundtripping is there to be used of course and should work. I hope that your CP-version is up to date?

    A bulleted animated list could also be spread on different slides if you do not want the workaround with different Text Captions.

    Lilybiri

    J
    jod-zeeeAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 3, 2011

    Hello Lilybiri:

    Yes, the issue was when I tried to edit one slide with roundtripping. It works fine if I edit the presentation, save, then choose "update" within Captivate.

    I'm using Captivate 5.0.1.624 (as a trial version for now) with PowerPoint 2003. I also have PowerPoint 2007 so I could use that if you think it would work better.

    What is FMR?

    It is cumbersome, but I also feel that creating, formatting, manipulating, and animating many individual captions and graphics is cumbersome (or at least it was in Captivate 4). So at this point, I'm not sure what my best option is (or would have been ... I may be too far into this project to start over).

    Can you tell me more about the bulleted animated list you referred to?

    Thanks!

    Jo

    RodWard
    Community Expert
    RodWardCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 3, 2011

    You can animate each paragraph of text separately in Cp5 as long as that text is contained in separate callouts.  That's the way Cp5 approaches it.

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