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william_7711
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October 15, 2024
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Two issues with copying simulation slides between projects

  • October 15, 2024
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Background: I'm working with Captivate modern. I am creating multiple short simulation projects and then copy/pasting the slides into a single merged project.

 

First issue: I cannot reliably copy and paste slides between projects. I seem to have the best luck pasting into newly opened projects that have not yet been saved. Once a propect has been saved it is nearly impossible to paste slides into it from a different project, though I succeeded in this once. I don't know why this works sometimes and not other times, as I have followed the same actions each time: Ctrl+C and then Ctrl+V. If I right click on the targeted slides instead I can see that I am able to copy them to the clipboard, but that the Paste option is greyed out in the target project.

 

Second issue: If I paste the slides into a regular project file, rather than one that was originally created as a simulation file, they are cropped and I can't seem to resize them. I have tried using the Best Fit/% list in the top right, with no success. This cropping issue doesn't seem to happen if I paste the slides into a file which was originally created as a simulation. 

 

 

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    william_7711Author
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    October 16, 2024

    Ok, I seem to have a work-around for both issues that I'll share here in case someone else has similar issues. 

     

    First issue: Successfully pasting slides doesn't require that a project has never been saved, just that it has been recently opened. So I pasted slides in my project until it broke and I couldn't paste any more, then I saved the project, re-opened it, and was able to continue pasting slides.

     

    Second issue: This was mentioned in my initial post, but pasting into a project that was originally created as a simulation prevented the cropping issues from occurring in the first place.

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