Does Captivate 9 allow me to access individual objects imported from PowerPoint slides?

[Raymond_S__Cole]

Hi,

I last used Captivate around version 4 or so--so it has been a long time and I am effectively a newbie again. I have a small PowerPoint presentation with a single slide. On this slide, I have a picture of a tabletop, a placemat, a dinner plate, and 6 circle shapes representing drop targets for a planned drag-and-drop interaction. Also on the slide are images of a knife, fork, spoon, napkin, drinking glass, and bread plate (with butter knife). The idea is to ask learners to see if they can "set the table" by dragging these items to the appropriate drop target circles on the tabletop.

When I import the slide into Captivate 9, it seems like Captivate flattens everything on the original PowerPoint slide, creating a single, non-editable image. The timeline in Captivate does not show any of the individual objects I created in PowerPoint. Further, if I use PowerPoint's Selection Pane to hide (effectively, to turn off) any objects prior to import, Captivate does not seem to honor this and instead displays every object.

My question is, is there any way I can gain access to the individual objects (e.g., the spoon image, or the napkin image) after the slide is imported into Captivate?

Thanks!

    -Ray

[Lilybiri]

No way. That is the reason I never recommend using Captivate to convert a

PPT. Either use a real PPT plug in if yoi want a presentation or start from

scratch in CP if you want a real interactive eLearning course. Use right

tool for the right goal

On Oct 15, 2015 12:52 AM, "Raymond S. Cole" <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

[RodWard]

Captivate works differently to Articulate Storyline in this respect when importing PPT slides.

Storyline converts the PPT slide objects into Storyline objects, but after that you cannot do any roundtripping back to PPT.  Captivate does not convert the PPT slides objects into Captivate objects but it DOES support roundtripping.

[Raymond_S__Cole]

Thanks RodWard and Lilybiri,

I feel this limits the value of the import-from-PowerPoint feature in Captivate rather severely, but I worked around it as you suggested: by saving each object separately out from PowerPoint and then importing each image separately into Captivate.

Cheers!

    -Ray

[Lilybiri]

You can import all of them at once to the Library in the Captivate file and drag from the library to the stage. As I explained before, Captivate is not an ideal PPT-converter.