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October 15, 2009
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Exporting captions into .DOC without MS Word?

  • October 15, 2009
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Hello,

I've been using Captivate for quite some time now, and lately we've upgraded to version 4.

My company has been working to add vocal annotations to all of our clips, by exporting the captions to a DOC file and sending them over to the narrator. Now I began working on a computer that has OpenOffice installed, and then I've realized that Captivate requires MS Word to be able to export simple document files!

Is there a workaround?

I'm not interested in buying MS Office just for the sake of being able to export - which is an integrated part of Captivate! I'm hoping that I don't have to purchase an additional software, which I don't need, just to be able to use one of the features of Captivate.

How can I convince Captivate to export through OpenOffice's Writer?

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RoboWizard
Inspiring
October 15, 2009

Hi there

I'm thinking that if you have Captivate 3 or 4 you can work past it by simply using the Export to XML. Modify the XML accordingly and import back into Captivate just as you did the Word document.

Cheers... Rick

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October 18, 2009

I've thought of that, but there's no real advantage in an XML file, unless there's a convenient way of converting it to DOC. Is there?

Captiv8r
Brainiac
October 18, 2009

Hi again

You don't count the ability to edit your text without having Word installed as "real advantage"?

I thought that's what the crux of the matter was.

Cheers... Rick

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