Custom Captions

I have been using a few custom captions in Captivate 5. I have just had them restyled and saved them into the Gallery > Captions folder. I have browsed for the new captions but it keeps adding the old caption.
How do I replace the captions with the new ones?
Thanks

Thanks so much Rod
I tried adding a _1 to the new captions but maybe have to change the names
totally.
Thanks for the help.
Regards
Claire

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I think your are pointing at Captivate 5 (Captivate is not part of a Creative suite, so the 'CS5' doesn't apply to it)?
Did you try to delete the Preferences folder in CP5? This has to be done while CP is not running. It depends on your OS. I'm on Windows 7 and the folder 'Captivate 5' can be found there in this path:
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Just so as I understand. If I have the green caption with a white internal background, all I need to do is lift the green balloon (with white color within the caption), and place it on a pink canvas - and that will keep all the surrounding areas on the outside of my caption transparent? I also need to make sure that I have to have probably at least a 1px area around the image from the edge of the canvas so it doesn't touch the size of the caption. Is that what I am understanding?
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A comment from Ricks forum post (including Ricks screeshot):
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A comment from Vishs forum post:
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