Fade outs and next buttons

Hi Folks-
I have a few questions. I am developing a course with mostly
text and images and am stuck on a few things:
1. Some of the screens seem to fade out before the reader
clicks next.
2. Sometimes the reader has to click next twice before the
slide changes
3. I have copied and pasted text from a word.doc and the line
spacing isn't consistent or even throughout, any sugggestions? I am
contemplating creating power point slides and importing them to
solve this problem. Do you think that would work?
Thanks.

Hi Joan and welcome to our community
Questions:
1. Does this only happen in Internet Explorer (IE) or does it
happen in all browsers?
2. If it only happens in IE, for the movies that are
exhibiting this behavior, have you simply tried hovering the mouse
over the movie before trying to click the button? If so, so you see
a little yellow "tooltip" appear that says something to the effect
of "Click to activate and use this control"?
If this is the case, it's a result of a change in behavior
that Microsoft was forced to make to the way IE handles content
such as Flash files. Again, if this is the case, the first click
"activates" the control. (basically patting Internet Explorer on
the head and telling it that the world will, in fact, NOT come to a
fiery end if it shows you the active content). Subsequent clicks
should be interpreted as they should be until a different movie is
loaded up. Then things start over.
Hopefully this helps... Rick

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transitions on image swaps (of course, i've rarely used them
so far).
and i just assumed the OP was actually trying to do a
slideshow, which
could still be the case i guess. i suppose he's covered
either way!
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I hope this all makes sense. I wonder if you might be able to point me in the right direction or if this is something that I should talk to our web developer about?
Many thanks,
Nicola

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