Adobe Captivate 6: Text Entry Box

When a student add text into a Text Entry Box on slide one, how can his/her text be shown in following slides (slide2).
Example: each user will have the ability to put his/her own text in the Text Entry Box on slide one.
Can the text be temperaly stored and shown again?
Thanks to help me out on this :-)

Hi Neil, I hope you don't mind me adding some tips? Do not type in the variable, but insert it in the text container (can be a shape as well, not only a caption) using the X button in the Format accordion of that text container. Variables are case sensitive, and that will avoid possible typos. Really I discourage always typing in the variable name between $$
Another tip: TEB's have an automatically generated associated variable, that has the same name as the TEB (I dislike that a lot, because mostly you cannot use the same name for two different objects). You could also use your custom name, there is another X button in the TEB properties, next to that generic name.

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