Convert quiz question to random question?

I'm using Captivate 3 and have a pool made up of 55 questions. Now I realize I should have created them as random questions. Is there a way to convert them? And I'm not sure where to go to specify that I want to use 50 of the questions when I publish the project. I didn't see it in the guide.
Thanks!
Barb

Hi again
You are almost there.
sage1990 wrote:
...I didn't realize that the random question slide simply pointed to an existing question...
The Random Question slides each point to a specific Question Pool. You define the pools and which questions go into each pool.
Cheers... Rick
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