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July 30, 2020
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Hello community,

Text to speech

I have duplicate a slide which had a text to speech narrative on it.

Although i deleted the audio from its place I can still see (at timeline) and hear the text to speech when playing.

Any thoughts?

Serial Number

I have bought the monthly subscription although I can't see my serial number to activate it. I have looked where it should be but with no success.

Button

When I hover on top of a button it disappears.

Am I doing anything wrong?

Last Point

I'm a completely new user of captivate. Would you recommend me to use any of the themes/slides available or to build my own?

Thanking you in advance,

Avgoustinos

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Lilybiri

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Slide notes will be duplicated as well. Edit them or delete them and regenerate TTS.

You don't need a serial number for a subscription license. Make sure to log in to the CC application with the same Adobe ID as you used for the purchase, and it will be recognized when you open Captivate. Activation automatic.

The Rollover state should appear, it is probably blank (not normal at all). Check by opening the Object State panel with the State View button in the Properties panel of the button.

You could create a custom theme from the Blank theme, but as a newbie I would recommend to practice first with an existing theme, either an included theme or one from a Quick Start project in the Assets panel. You can always save a theme as a custom theme, and start editing Theme fonts, Theme colors, Object Styles, Master slides later on..

Avgoustinos1917Author

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Thank you once again for the response - very grateful.

Excuse my ignoorance, but what exactly do you mean with the below? It is marked on the normal state currently. Whilst in the edit mode, the button appears fine but when in preview mode it disappears when I hover upon it.

I am also facing an issue with Ckeck Knowledge and questions. Is there a manual or tutorial which I can use/follow? I'm using the Safety project/slides and there are pre-made ckeck knowledge questions but I'm finding difficult to customize it;

i.e. custom fail message

I'm a firefighter, not a designer and I lack technical knowledge - hence the reason for so many questions. I'm a bit dissapointed with Captivate as I thought it would be easier but I'm keep finding issues.

Thank you

Lilybiri

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As a firefighter you know very well that the most performant professional tools need some learning. That is the same with Captivate, which is IMO the top multifeatured eLearning authoring tool. Starting with no training at all makes it harder, especially if you don't have a 'background' related to eLearning or using Adobe applications.

Especially if you want to use Quick Start Project slides (like Safety) and also for your question about the button, you need to learn how to use Multi-state objects. For the button, try what I already mentioned in my first answer:

Select the button and click State View in the Properties panel. That will open the Object State panel.
Unless the button has been edited you will see 3 states: Normal, Rollover and Down. I created for this screenshot a button where the Rollover state is 'invisible', which would clarify why the button seems to disappear on hovering over it:

For the KC slides from the Safety project, can you please give me the slide number(s) you are referring to? I will have a look, tell me what you want to customize, or is it only the Failure message? Is this in a responsive or non-responsive project, because that is important?

Tutorials? Have tons of them, but if you are only looking for passive video, you'll have to look elsewhere. Here are two links:

http://blog.lilybiri.com/about-state-commands-and-a-progress-bar

http://blog.lilybiri.com/quiz-slides-with-fluid-boxes

https://elearning.adobe.com/2019/11/quiz-resources/ has a pdf with most of my blogs about quizzes, need to update because have already posted some more.

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