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>1. I am interested in screen activity recording software for software
>demonstrations. Can anyone recommend any software which is
>stable and runs
>well on Windows XP (not sure at this stage if I need flash
>files or not)?
>
>2. About six years ago at a training show I saw a software demo for a
>PowerPoint slide organiser. I can't remember the name of the
>software but
>I do remember that it enabled core slides to be incorporated
>into multiple
>presentations. If a core slide was changed, the user would only need to
>updated/edited once and the software would rebuild all PowerPoint
>presentations which had the slide linked in. I have found a piece of
>software called "Slide Manager" on the web - but I'm not sure
>if this is
>it. Has anyone used this or a similar package?
Hi Jane,
I am using Captivate since a couple of weeks and I'm pretty satisfied.
You can import slides from PowerPoint and change a specific slide
without affecting the other. However, to my (limited) knowledge,
Captivate doesn't perform the link repair you described.
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