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Adobe Captivate 7: The Essentials

4. Explore the other slides.

 go from slide to slide and notice that none of the other Text Captions have

taken on the appearance of the Text Caption on slide 3

5. Observe an Object Style override.

 return to slide 3 and select the Text Caption that you formatted

 at the top of the Properties panel, locate the Style area

A style named Default Caption Style is selected in the drop-down menu,

indicating that it’s the style being used by the selected Text Caption. In fact,

all of the Text Captions in the StyleMe project are using the Default Caption

Style. That’s the reason the appearance of every Text Caption in the project is

wonderfully consistent.

Okay, okay, you caught me. I said above that every Text Caption in the

project is using the Default Caption Style. I should have stated that most of

the captions are following the Default Caption Style. In fact, the Text Caption

on slide 3 is following only a portion of the formatting specified in the style.

How do I know? Take a look at the name of the style in the Style drop-down

menu. There’s a plus sign to the left of the style’s name.

The plus sign indicates that something about the way the caption has been

formatted doesn’t match the intent of the style. Unfortunately, there’s no way

to tell exactly what the formatting issue is, but the plus sign is a handy way to

quickly determine that the formatting is different in some way.

In the world of eLearning development, speed and efficiency mean everything.

I’m betting that you don’t have a huge staff to support your eLearning

development efforts. I’m also pretty sure that you don’t have hours to waste

on manual labor. If you use the Properties panel to format every object on

every slide, you’ll find yourself formatting and formatting and formatting. And

when you’re done, you’ll format some more. I don’t want to even think about

how much extra work you will have to deal with if you want (or your boss

wants) to update the appearance of the captions project-wide. For that

reason, I discourage you from using the Properties panel to change the way

any object looks. You’ll find it much more efficient to change the way things

look via the Object Style Manager (you’ll play with that soon). Instead, use the

Properties panel to change the way objects behave (Timing, Actions, etc.).

Those kinds of properties are not controlled by an Object Style.

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