Help - Multiple Buttons on One Slide

I have a slide with three navigational buttons on it:  Menu, Back, Next.  I have the pause option checked on the Menu button and I have it set to pause at the end of the slide.  These work fine.  Menu jumps to one slide.  Back goes to the previous slide.  Next goes to the next slide.  Not sure if you need this information but wanted to add it anyway.
Then I have two additional buttons, "Right Answer" and "Wrong Answer".  I did no want to use the Quiz Maker to create some "knowledge checks" so I am creating "interactivity" using buttons and click boxes.  (I am using Quiz Maker for the Final Exam portion of the lesson and did not want the "Review Quiz" piece at then to include the Knowledge Checks.)  When the user clicks the Right Answer button, I want a caption that I have built to show.  If the user clicks the Wrong Answer, I want the user to show another caption and another button (that when clicked, will take the user to the slide containing that information so they can review).  The two captions I mentioned here are hidden until the user clicks.
This is not working as I envisioned it.  For some reason, only when clicking the Right Answer button does the action do as expected.  When clicking the Wrong Answer, it does not.  Can someone please help me figure out what I have wrong here?

Hi there
Likely what you are encountering is something we all have to deal with. The fact that once a Button has been clicked, the pause is released and the playhead continues merrily along until something else pauses it. Perhaps another Button with the pause point staged slightly farther ahead in time.
Imagine your Captivate movie to be very much like a stream. Imagine you start where the stream begins and you insert a little boat. It floats along until something stops it. Perhaps a stick lying across the stream. That stick is like the pause point on the Button. So let's say you click the Button by pressing it down. Imagine you have pressed the little boat down just as you pressed the button. It slides under the stick and continues until it is stopped again.
What you need is a way to keep the boat paused at the stick. So you need to perform an action. Not only do you press down on the boat, but you reposition it further upstream again so it can float back to the stick where it waits again to be dealt with.
So to accomplish this in Captivate, normally you create an Advanced Action that carries out the act of showing the Caption you want to show, then it repositions the playhead backwards a bit. You can also accomplish this by assigning one of the actions on the button click to be to Jump to the previous slide. And perhaps you time that previous slide as short as can be. Maybe .1 seconds or so.
If you wish to tackle the Advanced Actions avenue, see if the video recording linked below helps.
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Cheers... Rick
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