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There’s one major difference to focus on when it comes to captions and
your menu -the Caption Interactivity. The Action on Click that you can
assign for your captions, and your layers, is quite a bit more restricted than
what you’ll find for a show. After all, DVD players can’t typically run
programs or open URLs.

Interactivity Makes Menus

You’ve read that you can make both layers and captions interactive on your
pages. That’s a critical part to making a multi-page menu. You’re going to
need to give your audience the ability to go back to the starting page or
navigate back to chapter select. Trapping your viewer on a page that
doesn’t provide a link to go back to the main page would be quite
frustrating for them.

Let’s look at each Action you can perform with either a caption or a layer,
and whether that Action requires a Destination:

• Jump to a Menu Page: lets your viewer click on the layer or
caption to go to a specific page in your menu. The pages are
numbered from top to bottom. The top most page in your Pages
List is Page 1, the next one down is Page 2, etc. You’ll need to
enter the Destination page number for this to work.