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November 27, 2013
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Captivate 6 - long numbered lists

  • November 27, 2013
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I am working in Captivate 6 and need to include a numbered list that is too long to fit into a single text box. Unfortunately, the part of the list in the second text box restarts at number 1, and there does not seem to be a way to tell it to start at a higher number. Does anyone know how to do this?

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HimanshuSatija
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
November 27, 2013

Hello Greg ,

Welcome to Adobe Forums!

You can create a list in Microsoft word and then copy and paste directly into Captivate.

Thanks and Regards

Himanshu Satija

Participating Frequently
November 27, 2013

Himanshu - thanks for that. I tried it, and still the numbers start at 1

Rod - surely there must be a way to do this without hand numbering a list? It's a fairly basic requirement for anyone trying to convert documents for on-line use

Cheers

Greg

Participant
May 27, 2021

Captivate is not MS Word or Framemaker and it's not straight HTML.  (Captions and all static text they contain gets turned into graphics when published.)

There is no option to restart numbering on a list.

There would be overly complex ways of setting the numbering if your text was all generated dynamically from variables.

But why do something complex like that when all you need to do is start each line by typing a number.  It's the easiest way.


Folks, this is not an acceptable answer. StoryLine does this with ease. This post is from EIGHT years ago. Adobe has had all this time to add this BASIC feature!

 

Please put someone on this to make basic features like this happen, and not a classic Adobe work-around either. Create a actual button that allows you to re-number individual text boxes.

RodWard
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 27, 2013

It's very simple.  You just hard code the numbers.