Captivate 5 TOC not working?

Hi all - I'm new to Captivate 5 so please go easy...
I added the TOC, turning off pages, but creating folders (checkbox checked) to show chapters in the TOC as opposed to individual pages.
Now with the "Navigation Enabled" checkbox selected, I was expecting to "jump" to any of these chapters in my TOC and play the captivate SWF from there... but it doesn't work!
Any ideas on why this is? Can anyone help?
Thanks

Welcome to our community
One of the more common issues with what you are seeing is that folks create Question slides and sprinkle them through the presentation. Perhaps slide 10, 20 and 30 are question slides. But folks also will configure the Quiz settings so that the questions MUST be answered before being allowed to proceed. And if this is the case, Captivate will disallow navigating to a slide beyond the first unanswered question.
Hopefully this will help you figure out why it appears to be failing.
Cheers... Rick
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