Changing text in a Captivate slide?

I thought I saw a demonstration in the past that
showed to the text within a Captivate slide could be modified. The
slide were imported from PowerPoint originally. Would I have to
delete the slide and recreate another one in PowerPoint and import
it? I hope there is an alternative to that. Anyone have any
suggestions?
Thanks, as always!
Dean

Salim --
While you didn't really address me with your query, I can
comment on a relevant workflow.
In very large project teams, the individuals doing the
software screen captures are not necessarily the Instructional
Designers. I often come across situations where the Instructional
Designer has created the basic content for a lesson using
PowerPoint (because that's the tool of their choice) -- but that
content needs to be blended with Captivate content.
If it were possible to bring in the text from a PowerPoint
project, then I'd no longer have to retype many slides of text --
and in the process, risk introducing typographical errors.
Those kinds of options remove workflow constraints that
frustrate customers. Some don't want to be forced to use a screen
recording tool to organize their material -- and the Captivate
users don't want to rebuild supporting content that someone
upstream already put together.

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