The Text Effects feature lets you create and apply some sophisticated visual effects to the Text Captions and Smart Shapes containing text. If you are a Photoshop user, you'll be in familiar territory because Captivate's Text Effects feature shares most of its functionalities with the effects of Photoshop.
Follow these steps to experiment with Text Effects:
- Return to slide 2 of the Chapter02/takeTheTrain.cptx file.
- Double-click the Title placeholder and type Jan as the title text.
- Double-click the Text Caption placeholder and type in the following text (hitting the Enter key after each line of text):
Nationality : Belgian
Lives in : Brussels
Occupation : Student
Takes the train : Everyday!
- Hit the Esc key to leave text-editing mode and leave the Text Caption object selected.
- Reduce the height of the Text Caption so that it takes approximately half the available space.
- Select the title Smart Shape.
Now that you have some text on the slide, you can...
