Captivate 5 recording to add click boxes on mouse click

Hi,
I have used Captivate in the past and I just installed a trial of V5. I am not able to get the click boxes to appear when recording my software simulations. I am recording in training mode. I click settings, Mode=Training Simulation, and then click the Add Text Captions. When I preview, none of the boxes appear. I have tried in multiple software programs thinking that was the issue, but nothing works.
Does anyone know what I am doing incorrectly?

Hi Rebecca,
What you are doing is correct, but there is one more step.
On the main recording dialog "check the Training checkBox and uncehck the Demo"
This should work.
Please see the attached snapshot.

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Hi jimclennon and welcome to our community
I doubt you will be able to accomplish this easily. Failure
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click
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http://blog.lilybiri.com/why-choose-standard-over-simple-action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3nKi-DB6Fw
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Well, I guess that's that. Thanks for replying, I do appreciate it or else I would have been trying for days, wasting all sorts of time.
Until we meet again,
James

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