From the course: Captivate 9: Software Simulations

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Adjusting slide timing

Adjusting slide timing

You can use the Captivate time line to affect the timing of when objects appear on the screen. And most of the slides in our project are pretty straightforward, with a single action like a click on a click box or a button being the only thing happening on a single slide. However, we do have a few slides, such as slide 10 here, that have multiple captions and other items on screen at once. A slide like this would benefit from having these items come on screen staggered over time, instead of all at once and spread out all over the screen like they are. The introduction slides that we copied and pasted in from a different Captivate file, already take advantage of using the timeline to adjust the timing of objects on the screen. So, I'm going to go to slide three and take a look. Now if you watch the parts earlier in this course, this little explanation of how the time line works is going to be review. If you haven't, that's fine and I'm sure you'll pick it right up. So looking down at…

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