Getting Started: Captivate 9 Interactions

2 Major ways to Change Colors:

1. Changing Theme Colors

In Captivate 9, you can change colors through theme colors. Just go to:

Themes (upper left)
Select Theme Color
Select Customize.

That will open a dialog of your “Theme Colors.” If you change a color all objects using that color will also be changed. Like for example the buttons, they use the Theme color labeled skin 2. If you change the yellow in “Skin 2” all the buttons will change their color to that newly selected color.

2. Changing Style Colors

In Captivate 9, you can change colors through the style of the object by:

Select an object on the stage (ex. Buttons)
Select properties
Select the Style Tab and

Once you get to this point make your changes to the fill, stroke, or text color of the buttons. Then after modifying the style of the button, go ahead and click save changes to existing style. This will apply the modified style of your buttons or any objects that has the same style name.

*Note: make sure to save changes to existing style after modifying the buttons. Also make sure do it also in the SELECTED VIEW, this view contains different style.

Changing The Content

The content contains different state views. It contains Normal view and Content_01 – 06 views. Go through each state and enter your desired content text. Normal view is for your Introduction, Content_01 is for your content 1, Content_02 is for your content 2 and so on. You can modify the font size, color, margins, add images, more text fields, shapes, and etc. to each content view.

This article last reviewed Feb, 2020. The software may have changed since the last review.