# Moving and resizing captions

You can resize captions manually or automatically, and move captions to new locations on a slide.

Note: If you are resizing a caption, you cannot make the caption smaller than the bitmap used to create the caption. For example, the caption style "Blue Pill" uses bitmaps sized approximately 18 pixels (wide) x 16 pixels (high), so these bitmaps could not be resized down to 15 x 12 pixels. However, any of the caption bitmaps can be made larger. If you need very small captions, consider creating custom captions.

#### To manually resize a caption:

1. Open a Captivate movie.

2. Double-click on a slide that contains a caption.

3. Click the caption you want to resize.

4. Move your mouse pointer over one of selection handles on the edge of the caption until the pointer becomes a resize handle.

5. Using the left mouse button, drag to resize the caption.

#### To automatically resize captions:

Captivate can automatically resize a caption according to the amount of text in the caption. If you edit the text, the caption changes size to match the new amount of text. This is an easy way to keep your captions looking balanced and proportional.

1. Open a Captivate movie that contains captions.

2. From the Options menu, select Autosize Captions. (If a check mark appears next to the option, Autosize Captions is enabled; if no check mark is visible, Autosize Captions is not enabled.)

#### To move a caption:

1. Open a Captivate movie.

2. Double-click on a slide that contains a caption.

3. Move the mouse over the caption you want to move.

4. When the hand cursor appears, use the left mouse button to drag the caption to a new location on the slide.