How to prevent my slide from advancing?

Hi - how do I prevent my slide from advancing? I have a text caption at the top, then 2 images, each with click boxes over them. And then there are 2 text captions below - one underneath each image. I also added a next button to try to stop the slide from advancing.
I set the action on each click box to show the text caption below the image when the click box is clicked. So here's what happens:
- the slide plays, then stops
- user clicks either one of the images (is actually clicking the click box on top of the image), and
- then the slide start playing again and then eventually all the objects disappear (timing on the slide is about 17 seconds).
How do I get all the objects to just stay on the slide, until the user clicks the next button on the skin? I had thought the Next button would do that, but it's not (and I don't want a next button on there anyway).
Thanks!
Kelly

Hi Kelly
It's all in the timing.
Can you share your project? If we can see it first hand, we can then offer suggestions about what you need to do.
Cheers... Rick
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