Exploring the objects of Captivate

Captivate offers more than a dozen objects. In this section, you will learn about the standard non interactive objects of Captivate. You will learn about the more complex objects later in this book. The first object you will focus on is the Text Caption object.

Using the Text Caption object

Text Caption is the most basic object in Captivate. It is typically used to display text to learners. In its most basic form, Text Caption is a text item that appears and disappears from the screen according to its position on the Timeline panel.

The Demonstration auto-recording mode you used during the filming already added many Text Captions on your slides. Some of these might be just right, but most of them—if not all of them—need some extra work.

Modifying the content of a Text Caption

There are two editing modes available when working with Text Captions:

• First, you can consider Text Caption as an object. In this case, eight white squares appear around...