Hide playbar

Sorry, I'm sure this has been asked and possibly answered before, but... Is there a way to hide the playbar navigation controls on selected slides?

THANK YOU (and Lilybiri)! That was remarkably simple, especially when you consider I searched every possible, conceivable way through Captivate's Help and found absolutely nothing by way of a solution.
For any others who would like to have this secret revealed:
"But if you only want to hide the playbar on a slide, you do not really  need an advanced action. You can change the action 'On enter slide',  choose Assign and as variable cpCmndShowPlaybar. If you assign the value  1 the playbar will be visible, if you assing the value 0 it will be  invisibel. On the first slide where you want to hide you set it to 0,  and on the slide where you want to show it again you set it to 1."

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    I don't think that there is any way to avoid this "flash" unfortunately. The first slide must load completely before any events or actions are executed and therefore the playbar will load and display before the command to hide it is executed.
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