Captain Captivate

Here’s my presentation with Pooja and Vish from the Adobe Captivate team.

You may want to link out to the presentation on SlideShare to read the notes on each slide. I don’t like to put text on my slides. Static images are great for a live presentation, but conceptually doesn’t translate well.

I’ll update this post once they post the recorded session.

Forever Captivated!

- The Captain

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We’re all looking for a little more control in our lives, right?
Well the Captain stumbled upon a few undocumented keyboard shortcuts that may give you more control over your Text Captions.

The first pair of shortcuts allow you to control the tracking of text by 10% increments. I have tried to find the 1% increment keyboard shortcut with no luck. Remember, tracking will set the distance of text characters apart equally - while kerning adjusts the distance of the characters based on individual characters. To me this feature is defiantly tracking and not kerning.

Increase Character Tracking  by 10%: Control+Alt+Right Arrow (PC) | Command+Options+Right Arrow (MAC)

Decrease Character Tracking by 10%: Control+Alt+Left Arrow (PC) | Command+Options+Left Arrow (MAC)

Tracking and Spacing

The next set of shortcuts will control the Line Spacing of your text. Make sure that you have at least one word selected on the line before you attempt this shortcut. Also, the Property panel for the Text Caption will not reflect these changes in the Line Spacing value. Which is really interesting.

Decrease Line Spacing: Control+Alt+Up Arrow (PC) | Command+Options+Up Arrow (MAC)

Increase Line Spacing: Control+Alt+Down Arrow (PC) | Command+Options+Down Arrow (MAC)

It looks like it’s increasing the Line Spacing by 1.5 lines each time you use this shortcut. These work great for bullets!

I hope you have fun with these new shortcuts.

Forever Captivated!

- The Captain

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