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Using system variables to display slide count

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Using system variables to display slide count

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- [Instructor] System variables are built-in pieces of information about Captivate that you can harness to control how your project behaves. In this video, we're going to use system variables to create a slide counter to keep your audience informed about where they are in your training. The format will show the slide number the user is on out of the total number of slides. So here on slide one, I'm going to insert a new text caption, and I'm just going to move that text caption down to the lower left portion of the screen and I'm going to stretch it out, and I'm just going to delete that default text that is in there. So now in the Properties panel, I'm going to click the Insert Variable icon. It's the one that looks like an X in between two square brackets. In the resulting window, I'll click the Variable Type dropdown, and from here I'm going to choose System. Now I'll open the Variables dropdown and scroll down to CP…

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