Captivate 8 - Slide timing & interaction questions

I used to work somewhat with Captivate 3 & 4, and now just got access to Captivate 8 and am currently in the process of evaluating it.  I am hoping someone in the community could help me with the following questions:
1. Is there a way to add more than 1 action to an interaction?  In other words, I have a button which, when clicked, changes a graphic on the slide using the "Show" action on success.  However, I want to repeat that action to also show a video.  Is this possible?
2. On the same slide above, I have a total of 5 buttons.  4 of the buttons do what I mentioned in #1, but the fifth button acts more as a navigation button to move to the next slide.  I have a click box inserted for this 5th button with the option "Pause project until user clicks".  However, if any of the 5 buttons are clicked, the slide advances.  Any advice?
3. I've noticed that "Allow Mouse Click" is greyed out on all actions I've reviewed.  How can I enable this option?
Thanks!

Thank you, Lilybiri!  Regarding #1, the actions should execute at the same time, rather than in a timed sequence.
Regarding my question 3, I figured it out.  I just have to click into the text field and then hit the key I want on my keyboard (the "Allow Mouse Click" option is no longer greyed out following that).
I see what you mean regarding executing more than one action under Advanced Actions, but I'm having a slight issue.  When I select "Show" for my action and then go to choose what I want to display, I am not seeing the images I want as options (the images are both in the Library and currently on the slide, themselves).  Alternatively, perhaps I am seeing them, but I see options like "Image_15", "Image_16", etc... but I'm not finding those image names anywhere else, including the library.
Am I missing something?

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