Captivate 8 not importing PowerPoint slides in correct order
I am using Captivate 8, and PowerPoint 2007.
I have a PPT presentation with 24 slides. The original PPT presentation had only 14 slides, and I imported that into C8 with no problems - even when I made updates to those slides in PPT, the update in C8 went smoothly.
I increased the slide count in the PPT file, saved it, and in C8 I updated the file in the Library. Now the slides are out of order! And the slide count in C8 is completely off - for example, it says on one slide, "8 slide 5." It isn't slide 8 in PPT, and it isn't slide 5 in PPT. It's slide 15 in PPT. But in C8, it's slide 8. Other slides are also out of order - all of the additional slides that I made. I've tried closing and restarting both programs with no success.
I could simply swap out the slides, which I started doing and, because it's only 24 slides with roughly 10 slides out of order, it won't be too big a deal. But when I start transfering presentations with more slides, or with slide additions in the future, this WILL be a big deal and will really screw the efficiency factor of my projects.
I already know that I can simply use C8 to capture the PPT presentations rather than transfer, and I already know that C8 is not the ideal program for transferring PPT slides. My client wants quizzes and other media incorporated into the projects, so I need to use C8, and I cannot simply make a capture of the PPT presentations because that is not what the client wants.
Has anyone else encountered this problem and how did you solve it? Or is this simply a bug in C8?
Thanks!
Hi there
An observation as well as a question here.
Why not simply create a totally new project any time you add slides to the PPT?
When you update, you are essentially spending as much time as it takes to import fresh again. So I might think the better approach would be to simply trash or abandon the old project, then import the PPT again to create a totally fresh project. And you also wouldn't have the headache of the mismatched slides.
Food for thought.
Cheers... Rick
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