Converting Captivate 3 slides to Captivate 2

Hi,
I created a module on Captivate 3, however my office colleagues have captivate 2. They are unable to open the slides in Captivate 2 to record voice. Is there a way to convert slides from captivate 3 to captivate 2. Please advice.
Thanks

Hi there
If you have a PC with both version 2 and 3 installed where you can run them side by side, you can copy slides from 3 and paste into 2.
Other than that, just have them create blank projects in 2 with slides timed identically to 3 and have them record the narration. Then you could export the Narrated clips and import them into the 3 project.
Cheers... Rick
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