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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019

You're reading from   Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 Build cutting edge professional SCORM compliant and interactive eLearning content with Adobe Captivate

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789803051
Length 770 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Dr. Pooja Jaisingh Dr. Pooja Jaisingh
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Damien Bruyndonckx Damien Bruyndonckx
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Adobe Captivate 2019 FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Standard Objects 3. Working with Multimedia 4. Working with the Timeline and Other Useful Tools 5. Developing Interactivity 6. Crafting the Graphical Experience with Styles and Themes 7. Working with Quizzes 8. Capturing Onscreen Action 9. Producing a Video Demo 10. Creating a Responsive Project 11. Creating Virtual Reality Projects 12. Using Captivate with Other Applications 13. Creating Accessible eLearning 14. Variables and Advanced Actions 15. Finishing Touches and Publishing 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Saving a custom shape

Captivate gives you the ability to save your custom shapes and add them to the list of predefined shapes. In this exercise, you will save your custom shape and insert a second instance of it via the following steps:

  1. In slide 2 of your project, make sure that your custom shape is selected (with white selection handles around it).
  2. Locate the Custom section at the very top of the Style tab in the Properties inspector.
  3. Click the icon in the top-right corner of the Custom section and choose the Save Shape item, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Type myShape into the Rename Item dialog and click OK to save your custom shape.

By saving your custom shape, you make it a part of the collection of predefined shapes, so you can reuse it in the future. Perform the following step to draw a second instance of the same shape.

  1. Click the Shapes icon on the toolbar to open the Smart Shapes panel.

Note that your new shape is present in the Recently Used Shapes section at...

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