Bug in Captivate 5 with duplicating quiz slides??

Hi,
I have a quiz with 100 questions. I created a formatted question slide, (custom font, etc.) and wanted to duplicate this slide so that I wouldn't have to recreate it for each quiz slide.
The client wants to have audio (Text to Speech) and Closed Captioning visible on each slide. The issue is when I go to duplicate the slide to make a new question slide, I can't change the Closed Captioning text in the duplicated slide as it's linked to the original one.
Any ideas? I really don't want to have to create these questions slides by hand each time...

Hello,
I was puzzled by your question and just tried to reproduce it but was able to change the CC-notes on the duplicate slides? Could you explain your work flow? And BTW: what is your version number? Recently a patch was released, most recent is now version 5.0.2.630
Lilybiri

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