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georgeo1788178
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November 7, 2016
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Problem with applying master slide positions in quiz slides?

  • November 7, 2016
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I'm new to Adobe Captivate and am getting very frustrated in my attempts to fix the positions of default shape boxes in quiz slides. In particular, the default failure shape style box keeps jumping to different positions on the different slides. I've gone to Master slide view, selected the hot spot quiz slide and arranged the various boxes on the slide to be where I want them. I then hit the 'exit master' button and return to my slides. When I'm on a hot spot quiz slide I then expect to be able to hit the 'reset master slide' button and for that slide to then conform to the defined master slide for that type of quiz but it doesn't.

Have I totally misunderstood this? How do I go about defining a master layout so that all the appropriate slides conform to that master definition?

Many thanks for any help on this.

George

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    BDuckWorks
    BDuckWorks
    Inspiring
    November 7, 2016

    I'm sorry to say, many of the changes to the master slides will not affect the existing slides in the Cp file.

    Those changes will appear in new slides created within that file using the updated master slide.

    It may be worthwhile to change the master slide, go back to the target slide and reassign the master slide to another type, and the re-assign it to the edited slide.

    This has worked sporadically for me, depending on the changes.

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    georgeo1788178Author
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    November 7, 2016

    Hi, thanks for the response. I guess I would be happy with going through each individual slide and repositioning the boxes and I have done this 2 or 3 times already. My gripe is that after I have done that the positions then revert, mainly to where they were before I changed them, or in some cases to somewhere different on the slide. This is really frustrating as I really can't see what I am doing wrong. Is this usual for Cp?

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    November 7, 2016

    Which version are you using? I am a bit astonished by your question, because I have different experience with quizzing master slides. Any change to such a master slide: to the default design elements, to the location or size of the different captions, to the buttons is reflected immediately in the existing question slides. No need to reset the master slide at all. I am on version 9.0.2.437.

    I was pretty sure about the master slide for T/F, MCQ. Just double-checked for the hotspot master slide as well:

    1. I inserted a hotspot question slide, based on the Hotspot master slides from one of the default themes which I had customized
    2. I switched to the hotspot master slide, did change the style of the buttons, the size of the feedback shapes, the review area
    3. All changes were immediately applied to the previously inserted question slide.

    @BDuckWorks Are you using a older version of Captivate? It is strange that you mention that the changes to quizzing master slides do not affect existing slides, I cannot remember when that was the case but it is not so in the latest version. Any change to a master slide immediately is done to content slides based on that master slide.

    Forgot to tell that I was in a normal, blank project, not in a responsive project.

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