Can I SAFELY group a text on top of a shape/button?

[clwork]

I selected a Shape and converted it to a button. Reason being, I like the design variations it gives me. However, I see that it does not allow me to put text in to it.

My question is, can I safely group a text on top of this converted shape to button and use it without problems in my final project?

Thank you.

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

Wrong, any shape can also be a text container. Double-click on the shape or use F2 to go into editing mode.

That is one of the reasons I am such a big fan of shapes. When they are used as shape buttons, you can even have different labels (text) in all states. Have a look at the movie in:

Playing with Captivate 9 - Captivate blog

Everything you click in that movie is a shape button. Watch the states.

[clwork]

Thanks. I'll take a look.

I noticed that a grouped object will not do a "show to rest of slide.)

[clwork]

I am using Captivate 8 so I am  not sure this will work for me. ?

[clwork]

One more thing. The reason I did what I did (changed a graphic to a button), was because it Captivate 8 it gives me a roll over. I do not like the buttons that Captivate offers for this project.

[Lilybiri]

Look at my blog, I always use shape buttons since they appeared with CP6.

[clwork]

I hate to ask one more question in these many replies....

By putting a text on top of a button (text not being part of the button), will that cause issues in the final e-learning project?

I notice it's working fine now.

Thank you.

[Lilybiri]

It could cause issues for HTML output, better insert text in the shape. For SWF output, covering up an interactive object (like that shape button) with a static object (like your text) will not prevent the interactivity of the bottom object, but that is not (always) the case for HTML output.