# About captions

Captions are useful tools that draw attention to specific areas in a slide. Fore example, you can use captions to point out menu items or icons. You can also use captions to focus user attention on easily overlooked details. If you do not use voice-over narration in a movie, you can use captions to provide a similar function—captions can "speak" to the user.

You decide how captions appear (font, size, color, and so on). Captivate provides a wide variety of predefined caption styles, but you can also create custom caption styles that match your company or organization appearance.

It is easy to add captions to movie slides manually, but to create captions very quickly you can have Captivate automatically generate captions based upon what is recorded. For example, if you record the mouse clicking on the Edit menu, Captivate can automatically create a caption that says "Select the Edit menu" and place the caption on the exact slide showing the action.