Animating bullet points on a single slide

I feel your pain, John.

Importing PPTs into Captivate is problematic for numerous reasons. For example, none of the objects come over and go into the library...they all embedded in the background of the slides.

If you get frustrated, as did I, trying to get PPT content to work well after an import, someone helpful person in the forums will likely suggest you just use Captivate for your authoring instead....fair enough. But then, Captivate does not have some of the most basic presentation-type features...like, as you mentioned, animating a bulleted list of text, so that the bullets come in/go out one at a time. Bulleted lists, though often abused, do have their place in eLearning...especially if you can animate the bullets in synchronized to other objects like images.

Even formatting features...you cannot effectively control the spacing in a text caption with bullets. You can control spacing to some degree, but nothing close to the sophistication of other types of apps like presentation or word processing. Not asking that Captivate be either of those types of apps, but some functionality would be expected.

I have an animated bulleted list that I did in PowerPoint...because of the above, to reproduce with the same functionality in CP, I will (unless I am missing something) have to create a separate "text caption" for each bullet and its text, and then time and animate each one separately. And there is no "Fade" animation in CP....you must go into the Timing Properties and set a transition an object to fade in or fade out.

OK...rant over!

You can stagger the captions on  the timeline and add click boxes (staggered as well). What you are asking for is typical for a presentation tool, I try to avoid bullets as much as possible for eLearning.