Differents problems with Captivate

Hi to everyone,
Nowadays i'm having some problems with the Adobe Captivate 6 and i will apreciate your help. My time is over to finsih a proyect and i don'y know what to do. The problems are about these questions,
Creating a Quiz, i need to put two questions on the same slide but i don't know how. Also these questions must be response every time, and in my project i am able to response only once. After the correct response, the question appears blocked and we can't try to do it again. Maybe the problem can be the type of quiz, because really it isn't a score quiz. But if i use a "pre-test" quiz, i don't find the option to include the feedback response in correct or wrong answer.
About the interactive buttons, i wold like to find a only button that shows and ocult a text box. I mean that this button must show the text box with one click, and after reading must close it with another click. I'm sure that adobe captivate can do it, but i don't find the solution.
When i organize the table of contents, that appears on the left side of the screen, with the diferent levels of titles, the software force me to create a "folder" to put into the epigraphs. For example, i create a folder with the name "title 1", inside of this folder i put the slides "1.1 Title", "1.2 Title"...etc. After that, when i want to see the slide "title 1" with a click on the button that contains the table of contents, it doesn't work like the others who are not a folder. I need that it works like a dropdown menu at the same time that it allows me to see the contests of that title in a quick way, clicking on it.
If someone can helps me with that questions i'll be very grateful. This is my first work with captivate and it has become in a nightmare.
Sorry for my english, it isn't as well as i would like.
Thanks to spend your time reading that.
Best wishes.

Hi,
Please find my answers next to your question --
Creating a Quiz, i need to put two questions on the same slide but i don't know how. Also these questions must be response every time, and in my project i am able to response only once. After the correct response, the question appears blocked and we can't try to do it again. Maybe the problem can be the type of quiz, because really it isn't a score quiz. But if i use a "pre-test" quiz, i don't find the option to include the feedback response in correct or wrong answer. You would not be able to isnert two question on one question slide. Can you elaborate your requirement, why you would like to haev such a set up? You can increase the number of attempts for a single question, but once you answer that correct it would do the action set for "success".
About the interactive buttons, i wold like to find a only button that shows and ocult a text box. I mean that this button must show the text box with one click, and after reading must close it with another click. I'm sure that adobe captivate can do it, but i don't find the solution. By text box, you want to display a static text caption or a Text Entry box? If you just want to show and hide a text caption, why don't you try roll over caption, which would easy your task and user can see the caption once they bring their mouse to roll over region.
When i organize the table of contents, that appears on the left side of the screen, with the diferent levels of titles, the software force me to create a "folder" to put into the epigraphs. For example, i create a folder with the name "title 1", inside of this folder i put the slides "1.1 Title", "1.2 Title"...etc. After that, when i want to see the slide "title 1" with a click on the button that contains the table of contents, it doesn't work like the others who are not a folder. I need that it works like a dropdown menu at the same time that it allows me to see the contests of that title in a quick way, clicking on it. Folders are used to structure your content, so if you want to display you slide 1.1 Title, you can rename this slide as Title 1 and uncheck all slides under this folder, this way your purpose of going to First Slide udner the Topic 1 would be solved.
Thanks,
Anjaneai

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