How to Captivate Me?

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Q. What's the quickest way to make a Captivate presentation?
A.Well, now that you asked. Let me ask you why you didn't just come and hear what Sue Tedford had to present. She show&told it a lot better than I will. But here goes:

1. You could take an existing PPT file (ya know a MS PowerPoint presentation) and import into an open Captivate Session | Blank Movie.
2. Select Insert to display the Open dialog box.
   
3. Select the slides you want to convert to Captivate. Ya, know in the background Captivate is converting the slides to XML. But who cares?
   
4. Voila! All the PPT/XML slides are now in the CAPTIVATE timeline. Looked just like my friend, FLASH.
   
5. Now, you can do some fun stuff.---. Insert a Questionaire so user's can imput responses to your sleuthy little questions.
6. You can record your screen movements, add some voice instructions, (but you better get a sound room. CAPTIVATE MASTER Larry Lutz, said recording has an echo. And it would be wise to purchase a 3d party sound editor, like SoundForge. )
   
7. You can make TEXT ENTRY Boxes, so the user can simulate entering information into the fields that the SW has.
   
8. PUBLISH. WhooHoo! You got a sweet, little .swf file that will CAPTIVATE your audience.
   

Too Ez. Too Groovy!