Captivate 5 Messing up Text in Captivate 4 files

I am able to open my Captivate 4 files from CP 5 but all of my text styles, position, and indentations are messed up. Also Shift enter no longer works in Captivate 5. I do not want every line to have bullets when I use them.

macrofireball wrote:
Hi there,
I have seen issues with Shift + Enter in Adobe Captivate 5 as well. The Adobe Captivate 5 text engine now uses Points rather than Pixels (the units of measure used in CP4) which might explain why your text styles etc are experiencing problems. That said I would still recommend that you report this issue to the Adobe Captivate 5 team using the web address I have included below.
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&product=5
Best regards,
Mark
Having the same issues. The Point over Pixels would explain a lot except for the fact that it seems there is a very definite creep on the indentations. CP5 seems to get extra indents during conversion. Occasionally instead of picking one single indent level for each level it gets a creep of extra levels. It's simple enough to fix except on the occasion where you cant pull the indents back to the left margin properly. I have a feeling that it could be a mix of font sizes and styling and where the text that was pasted in was origionally sourced.
If Shift + Enter doesnt work put an extra bullet where you want the gap and then turn that bullet off. Feature enhancement would be to allow setting of paragraph spacing on top of the much welcomed line spacing.

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