Calling a swf from captivate

I have a project that has multiple chapters. Within those chapters there are multiple sections. Some of the sections are used in other projects. So for version control, I would like to create a captivate project that finds these sections that are outside of the project. In other words, I might make a project about fruit and another about food. Both have a chapter about apples. If I change apples, i would like for it to affect both fruit and food (man I hope this makes sense).
Is there anyway to do this? So far people have said 'cut and paste the slides', but I will literally be using some sections in 10 different projects. Having the ability to update one main 'apples' file and have it update in all 10 projects is what I am looking for.
Thanks,
Van

The secret ingredient in all successful daisy-chaining is to use relative links, not absolute links (which would only work on your computer).
If you've done that, then all you should need to do is copy the folder containing the published course files over to the client's computer.
If your client is running this course from their computer hard-drive or a LAN drive, you'll need to make sure that they have this folder set up in their own Flash Global Security settings as a trusted location.

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> want
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exsting Flash
> animation,
> but put it in a second .FLA/.SWF file. How do I call one
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>
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dicknsont wrote:
> I have published some Captivate 2.0 movies to .swfs and
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> format to put into another project.
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loverflash wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> We are using
> Dockers as our LMS.
> So instead of getting single output, am
> getting all the swfs, skin swf and html file. Html file
is accessing all swfs
> and works. But it is not working in Dockers. Single swf
will only work in
> Dockers.
>
> Thanks
> Flashlover
>
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