ich habe in den Voreinstellungen (Preferences) die Anzeige für Smartshapes von 3 sec auf "restliche Folie" gestellt. Leider ändert sich dadurch nichts: Wenn ich Smartshapes neu einfüge, werden sie nur für 3 sec angezeigt.
I always change that duration for Shapes immediately after installing Captivate, as global Preference. Global means before opening any project. Here is a screenshot (since I don't know the terminology used in German).
Know that this will only be applied to newly inserted shapes. That is the reason why I am setting it up when in the Welcome screen, before starting any project.
If you want to change the duration for existing shapes in a project, do it for one shape and use the hanburger menu to apply it to the rest of the shapes in the project.
I read that it is not working for you even for a new shape, which is weird. Which exact version of Captivate do you use? Full number can be found under Help, About Captivate. Are you on Mac or Windows? When you reopen the Preferences do you see confirmation of the timing of the shapes? Can you try to export the preferences, import them in a new project and test the timing of a newly inserted shape? That is not necessary if you did it in the Global Preferences of course.
I am using exactly the same version as you do on a Win system.
I would try now to clean the Preferences. You will lose all changes, including this timing change, but I have a feeling that Captivate is bit corrupted and this could help:
Close Captivate
Find the subfolder 'utils' under the installation folder and run the file 'CleanPreferencesWin.bat'.
Restart Captivate. Now try to edit the Preferences before opening a project, change the Timing for smart shapes as you did before.
Start a new project and insert a slide which is longer than 3 seconds, insert a smart shape and it should now have timing for rest of the slide.
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