Linking an object to copies of itself

Can an object be linked to copies of itself, such that
changing the attributes of one object will change the attributes of
all its copies at the same time? For example, if you have the same
button on many slides in a project, it would be very desirable to
change it in one place and have all the changes reflected in its
sister buttons.

Hi Kevin,
This button feature is, of course, not full relational
capability but it can be handy for changing global features.
As far as I can tell (and your question made me curious
enough to do a lot of searching), the only object in Captivate with
the capability you're looking for is common backgrounds, which are
not actually duplicated but multi-used among as many slides as need
the same one. Edit one that is multi-used without first making and
applying another copy and they all get changed!
That functionality, however, should be possible to apply to
other objects (I'd love to have it for repetive captions that I
like to format in specific ways) in a future release. It would
probably, however, require a bit more manipulation for a multi-use
object than a simple copy and paste (it would at least require
naming) ... but if you have a lot of repetition in a project, it
would be woth it. So ... I'm off to the wish list to add my request
to yours!
Gail

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