Captivate 5: Opening Multiple URLs

Hey All,
My company is currently working on some new Captivate training. We have, however, run into a snag. We continually run into the problem that when you click a button to open a url/file it contines past the pause we have built in. We can't build a pause into the button itself due to audio narration. We thought of using a few seconds at the end (after the audio) to create an invisible pause (invisible button that pauses) before the next button pause. However we have a few slides wehre there are about 8 links they need to click. We mainly want them to be able to open the files as many times as they want without the training advancing on its own.
So that is your mission if you choose to accept it.

Hi there
Does the link below help you solve it?
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Cheers... Rick
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