Disappearing text in Captivate 7

Help! I am using Captivate 7 and have recorded a module in which I am using a mix of standard Text Captions and Smart Shapes. All is fine until I save and close the file, then re-open it. On reopening, all the text in all the Text Captions and Smart Shapes disappears, and I have to click on each individual object, on each slide, for it to then magically re-appear! Has anyone encountered this issue and found a solution? Thanks! J

Sounds like a corruption. Can you (trying to list up in sequence):
restart Captivate, problem still persists?
restart your system, clear cache in Captivate before opening project, problem still persists?
close Captivate and clean preferences; there is a file to run in the subfolder Utils under the Captivate installation folder.
When cleaning preferences you'll lose all customisation. Here is a post that can help you retrieve some custom things: Captivate 8.0.1 Install? Keep your Customisation! - Captivate blog
It doesn't matter if this was written for CP8, the location of the folders was the same in 7.

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know the proper
> terms
> to describe things, so I apologize ahead of time for my
lack of
> experience.
>
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businesses. I have
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