Specifications

USING CAPTIVATE

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Last updated 9/28/2011

Change shortcut keys for recording

1 Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Adobe Captivate > Preferences (Mac OS).

2 In the Preferences dialog box, select Keys from the Recording menu.

3 To change keys, click once in one of the text boxes and, on the keyboard, press the key or key combination you want

to use. For example, click inside the To Stop Recording text box and then press Shift+Alt+4. The key combination

you entered now appears in the To Stop Recording text box. You can use almost any key, including the Control,

Alt, Shift+Control, and Shift+Alt keys. For example, you could change the stop recording key to Alt+R.

Change shortcut keys for an object

You can specify a new shortcut key for interactive objects such as buttons, text entry boxes, and click boxes.

1 Select the object.

2 Click the Shortcut text box in the Action area of the Properties panel. The box gets highlighted in blue.

3 Using your keyboard, set a key combination, for example, Control+Shift+K, Control+Right Arrow, or

Backspace+M.

The Control, Shift, and Alt keys map to the relevant Macintosh® keys.

Note: If your Adobe Captivate movie will be displayed in a browser, set shortcut keys that do not conflict with common

browser shortcuts. For example, F1 is frequently used as a keyboard shortcut to display Help.

4 If you want the users to use only the shortcut key, deselect Allow Mouse Click.

Shortcut key Action

Control+R (Win), Command + R (Mac) Start/record new capture project

Control+Alt+O (Win), Command+Option+O (Mac) Record additional slides

End (Win), Command+Enter (Mac) Stop recording

Delete (Win & Mac) Delete the current selection

Pause (Win), Command+F2 (Mac) Pause or resume recording

Print Screen (Win), Command +F6 (Mac) Capture a screenshot manually

F4 (Win & Mac) Preview project

F3 (Win & Mac) Preview single slide

F2 (Win & Mac) Edit caption text

F12 (Win & Mac) Preview project in browser

F4 (Win), Command+F4 (Mac) Auto panning

F3 (Win), Command+F3(Mac) Manual panning

F7 (Win), Command+F7(Mac) Stop panning

F9 (Win), Command+F9 (Mac) Start Full Motion Recording

F10 (Win), Command+F10 (Mac) Stop Full Motion Recording

F11 (Win), Command+F11 (Mac) Snap recording window to mouse

F12 (Win), Command+F12 (Mac) Toggle mouse capture