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Create a Table of Contents (TOC) with Adobe Captivate

Last updated on Jul 31, 2024

Captivate User Guide
Introduction to Captivate
1. What's New in Adobe Captivate
2. Adobe Captivate System Requirements
3. Adobe Captivate Updates
4. Download Adobe Captivate
5. Frequently Asked Questions
Add a slide
1. Slide navigator in Adobe Captivate
2. Add a conversation slide
3. Add characters to your Adobe Captivate project
4. Edit the background image on a slide
5. Add padding to content blocks and components
6. Create a long scroll project
Add text blocks
1. Add text to a project
Add media blocks
1. Add images to a project
2. Add videos to a project
3. Add quotes
4. Add SVGs to a project
Interactive components
1. Add a button
2. Add an input field
3. Add a radio button group
4. Add a dropdown
5. Add a checkbox
Widgets
1. Add a Card
2. Add Tabs
3. Add a Certificate
4. Add a Carousel
5. Add a Hotspot
6. Add Drag-and-Drop
7. Add a Timeline
8. Add Click to Reveal
Create quizzes
1. Add a Multiple-choice question
2. Add a True or false question
3. Add a Match the column question
4. Add a Short answer question
5. Add a Sequence question
6. Add question pools and random question slides
7. Import questions as CSV
Add audio to a project
1. Add audio
Interactions
1. Add interactions to a project
2. Create interactive video with overlay
3. Create a slide-level interaction
4. Create an object-level interaction
Animations
1. Add animations to a project
Accessibility
1. Make a project accessible
Customize the timeline
1. Timeline panel in Adobe Captivate
Customize TOC and Playbar
1. Table of Contents in Adobe Captivate
Edit project properties
1. Variables in Adobe Captivate
2. Preferences
3. Project dimensions
4. Themes
Create a simulation project
1. Simulation
Preview a project
1. Preview
Share a project for review
1. Share for review
Publish a project
1. Publish your project
Upgrade projects in Adobe Captivate
1. Upgrade projects to the latest version

You can automatically generate a Table of Contents (TOC) for your Adobe Captivate project. You can find the hierarchy of slides in the project in the TOC.

You can specify the position of the TOC for the main slide during editing. At run time, clicking the various headings in the TOC displays the corresponding slides in the main panel.

The TOC entry corresponding to the slide displayed is highlighted in the TOC panel as the movie runs through the slides.

A Status panel checkmark indicates the slides the user has completed viewing. You can configure the project for self-paced learners so they can start viewing slides from where they left off earlier.

Create a Table of Contents

Select TOC and Playbar in the lower-right corner of the right toolbar.

Location of TOC and Playbar
Enable the toggle Show TOC to display the Table of Contents (TOC) in your project. The slide groups and slides are displayed in the same order as they appear in your project, along with their titles.

Show TOC toggle is enabled

Organize a Table of Contents (TOC)

You can change the hierarchy of the slides in the TOC. The reorganization affects only the TOC and not the order of the slides in the project. You can also choose to hide certain slide entries in the TOC.

Depending on your preferences, you can reorganize the TOC using one or more of the following procedures:

To move a slide to the next sublevel in the hierarchy, select Move TOC Entry Right.
To move a slide to a previous level in the hierarchy, select Move TOC Entry Left.
Select Move TOC Entry Up or Move TOC Entry Down to move the slide entries up and down.

Create a group

To create a group within the TOC, select a slide on the TOC, click Create Folder. Rename the topic in the TOC and organize slides under it. You can create up to five sublevels in the TOC menu.

Remove an item from TOC

Select the slide or group under TOC and select the delete icon to remove an entry.

Delete an item from the TOC — Remove an item from TOC

Customize the playbar

The playback controls, consisting of a playbar and a progress bar, allow users to control the slide when it's played. The playbar displays buttons that control the movement of a slide.

To customize the playbar in Adobe Captivate, you can follow these steps:

Select TOC and Playbar in the left toolbar.
Select the Playbar tab.

Playbar settings
Enable or disable the following options:
- Show Playbar: Enable to display the playbar when the project plays.
- Hide Playbar in Quiz: Enable to display the playbar when a leader takes a quiz.
- Show tooltips: Enable to display the tooltips on a palybar.
- Play: Enable to display the Play button on the playbar.
- Back: Enable to display the Back button on the playbar.
- Next: Enable to display the Next button on the playbar.
- Mute: Enable to display the Mute button on the playbar.
- Closed Captions: Enable to display the button to show the closed captions in a project.
- TOC: Enable to show the Table of Contents button on the playbar.

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