Help - viewing published captivate 3 projects

Im new to using captivate. ive created a project and
published it as flash (ticking the export to html box). when i view
output it plays the first slide and then two white boxes appear at
the bottom of the slide then it fades to grey and pauses. Any ideas
about why this might be happening? could it be related to active x
/ java?

Hi sjsnovice and welcome to this forum.
What does your source file look like i.e. how many slides are
there and does the output reflect this or not. Assuming that the
output does NOT look like your source file at all, I would suggest
looking at the following 2 things:
Firstly, each slide has its own built in navigation which is
defaulted to "next slide", check that this is the case as a change
here by error could be leading your output in a different path as
to the one you expect. To check, right click on the slide and
select Properties. Your navigation settings are about halfway down
in the box.
Secondly, the pause could be due to a click box or button
that you have inserted onto a slide and these are defaulted to
pause play until the user interacts. If this is the case, then play
around in the options tab of the properties box for that
interactive element.
Hope this helps, but if not, please post back and we can
relook at the whole issue.
Andrew

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