Captivate 7 Publishing Powerpoint slides and crashing

I have recently updated Captivate 7 on my mac using the patch to make it work with Mavericks. All appears fine, however I have a project that has some powerpoint slides in it. When Captivate previews the content it locks up and freezes on any of these slides. Then if I publish the file out and load to our LMS it simply exits when it reaches the same point.
I must admit that I did not have Captivate 7 when I first created this file so its new to 7. I also built it on a Windows build. Is this something to do with the way the Windows version of Captivate 6 handles PowerPoint that the Mac cannot handle?
If anyone can offer any advice as I have a really complex build on one of these and I would hate to have to start the powerpoint elements again.
James

To my knowlede this cannot be done.  Master Slides are used to provide mostly static elements that are reused across other slides (like backgrounds or foregrounds).

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