Captivate 5 :: Bilingual Toggling Courses

Hello,
With Captivate 5 is it now possible somehow create an online course in two languages so that at any time (whether in the course content or quizes) the language can be toggled with a button (that will always be present in the navigation menu) from say English to French and vice versa?
I am just wondering if this is possible with Captivate 5 before I have to create something with Flash as a Cp5 widget.
Thanks.
Carlos.

Hi Carlos,
Try this
1. Create a captivate course in Language 1
2. File >> Export >> Project Captions and closed captions
3. Edit the column named "Updated Text Caption Data" with the Language 2 text. Save and close the word document.
4. Inside Captivate, Copy the slides with Content in Language 1 and paste it after the last slide with content in Language 1.
5. File >> Import Project captions and closed captions.
Now you have content in Language 2 in the first set of slides and content in Language 1 in second set of slides. Now you can create a navigation page and handle the jumps to respective language slides.
Hope this helps.
-Ashwin Bharghav B

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