Ctrl + Mouse Click to Advance - Possible?

In the course I'm working on, I want the user to select several options from a list and it uses typical Windows behavior - the user would click and hold ctrl and left mouse click each option. When I recorded the screen in Captivate 7, the dialogue box states this instruction but when I test it, i can advance by only using the mouse. Is there a way to force the user to use both the ctrl key and mouse to advance or else get a failure caption?
Thanks!

First of all, i couldn't figure out how to advance the slide
with the use of the mouse. so i chose the spacebar as the select
key. i used the following settings: on success--continue; allow
user--one; select keys--space bar; apply settings--all. the
settings-all didn't seem to have any effect. on the slides i worked
on individually, here are the issues i ran into: slide continued to
play for a long time before advancing to the next slide, needed to
press space bar multiple times before slide advanced, clicking
button on screen to advance (the one i created with the click box)
did not seem to have any effect. right now, the show is playing by
itself. my goal is to slow it down so the user has control over
when to advance to the next slide.

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