Preferences and Defaults
Used ver. 2 for a year or so and now am on 3. Certain
defaults have changed, and I want to set it back to the ver. 2 way.
For example, highlight area's colors are different. I don't care
about color, but I'd like my newer outputs to match my older ones.
Can't seem to make a permanent change to the defaults.
Mouse movement. Ver. 2 used to capture the mouse movement by
default. Now, even though it seems to be set to do so in
Preferences, it usually doesn't. I have to highlight all my slides,
then tell them to show mouse movement. And with that, it adds
clicks that shouldn't be there on some slides. FRUSTRATING.
There are many more (like keeping a font size in the script
box when recording), but I'll stop and just ask: is there a
PERMANENT way to set these things so that they'll be there when I
start a new project?
It's very hard to get an answer from the support phone
department, as well.
thanks in advance to anyone who might be able to help.
ms
hi ms
Open Captivate and select Edit/Preferences. Use the nodes on
the left to set up the various options as you would prefer.
Cheers
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