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AlasdairGF
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May 2, 2007
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Importing Powerpoint Slides?

  • May 2, 2007
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Wonder if anyone can shed any light on this - I'm a new Captivate user, and really taken with the program. However, I'd really like to be able to import Powerpoint slides so that I can produce learning materials to support some of our distance learning students. Trouble is, I can't seem to do it... currently, when I try to import the slides (either via the Insert or File menu routes), once I click OK on the "Powerpoint slide options" dialogue box, suddenly: nothing happens.

I've had a look on this forum and in the Support Centre, both of which suggested it might be that I didn't have the correct permissions to read & write to my local C: drive. Have checked with our IT department, but I have local admin rights to all folders on my C: drive, so that can't be it.

I'm launching the programme from a networked drive, could that be part of the problem? And if so, does anyone have any ideas how I (or the IT dept) might solve this?

Regards

Alasdair G-F
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AlasdairGFAuthor
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May 2, 2007
OK, sorry to have wasted precious seconds of your life reading this thread... but it's now been resolved. Thought I'd leave this up here in case it's a problem for others.

Our IT department's response to me (after re-installing the app), was that "The problem with importing PowerPoint slides in to a Captivate movie should now be fixed. This was down to permissions on the network share".

OK, so it was a permissions problem after all - just not the same one that others had encountered, and not one I could resolve locally.
Captiv8r
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May 2, 2007
Hi AlasdairGF and welcome to our community

I'm more than a bit concerned when you say "network share". This seems to possibly indicate that you are using Captivate to create projects that will reside on your network. What I mean by this, is that you are opening Captivate, then creating a project that is stored on the network with Captivate running on your local PC and the project being stored on perhaps, the F: drive (or any other letter than C:)

If you are working in this manner, you are courting disaster. There have been many posts here complaining of corrupted projects that cannot be recovered by working in this manner.

Take a look at the following Adobe Technical Note: Click here to read the Technical Note

Cheers... Rick
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AlasdairGFAuthor
Participant
May 2, 2007
Thanks, Rick. Actually, it's the other way around - the program resides on a network drive accessed through a launcher / installer, and the data is saved locally. There's also network drivespace, but it's limited, so thought I'd be better off saving to a physical hard-drive - glad I have, now.
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