Sizing down Caption Text Box Width

[idberlin]

I'd like to firstly thank all those stars who have been diligently answering all our questions! I hope I speak for all the 'questioners'!

This is trivial perhaps, but I'm writing fractions and numbers in my lesson and I cannot decrease the width of the caption text box and I then have overlap and it becomes very difficult to move the boxes close to each other and then select one of them without getting the wrong box.Chaos ensues in which I must move over all the boxes I previously lined up so nicely to get at the one caption text box I want.

In the Transform area I've unchecked Constrain Proportions. I've tried to decrease the width using the anchor points and by trying to type in a smaller number in the transform area. All to no avail. A red arrow appears above the text box and it insists on not allowing me to decrease the width.

So in summary...is there a where to unlock the width of the text caption box so the box fits snugly around the text?

Thanks again and I look forward to benefiting from your collective wisdom.

Daniel Berlin.

[idberlin]

NB: Using Captivate 8.

[idberlin]

OH... and the margins are all set to 0 as well.

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

There is a minimum size for text captions, sorry about that. Can you try to

replace captions by shapes as text containers?

[idberlin]

OMG! That is brilliant!!!!

I can set the transparency to zero so there's no background color.

Thanks so much.

Unfortunately, this means I may have to keep seeking answers here, thereby possibly becoming a nuisance!.

Cheers.

Daniel Berlin.

[Lilybiri]

Forgot, to move together, group the text containers with CTRK-G

[Captiv8r]

Hi there

No worries about being a nuisance. That's why the forums exist. So we can help one another out.

Just a bit more explanation about why captions cannot be resized beyond a minimum size. Essentially, each caption type has a background image that is used to present the background. And it's the size of that image that actually determines the minimum size. Some captions have a really small background image and can be sized pretty small, while others have a substantially larger image used. Hence, the difference.

Cheers... Rick