Captivate 8 pausing on PPT animations instead of playing through to the end of the slide.

I imported a 26-slide PowerPoint 2007 presentation with animations into Captivate 8 and added two separate Captivate 8 simulations. When I preview, Captivate pauses at each and every animation. I would like for it to play through the entire slide that has been timed to a narration, and the user will only have to click to move to the next slide. Am I too ambitious or missing a critical step/setting? Please help me if you can. I've checked everywhere I can think of. The only thing that seemed to work was when I ripped all of the animations out of the PPT. It behaved then as I am hoping for it to do when the animations are in the ppt.

You'll have to check the PPT: maybe it is set up to need a click for each animation instead of just being timed (following in sequence)? Captivate is just recording (creating sort of movie clips, one per slide) literally what is set up in the PPT.

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