Master slide after importing

Hello Captivate-community,
We have some projects which are made with Captivate 6.x and we would like to import the slides into a new Captivate 7-template.
After importing all slides are set to master slide "chapter".
How can we leave the master slide as it is ?

Did you create a custom theme in 6 that had those master slides? Did you use that theme in Captivate 7? You can also copy/paste master slides if you want.

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Old Photog wrote:
1. If I click "create a new master slide", Keynote duplicates the nearest master in the list. Is there a way to start out with a blank master?
No. As you say, creating a new master slide always just duplicates the currently selected master
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placeholders in a new slide. Later when I came back to Keynote I found the images had been replaced with a grey background, outline "X" and question mark. What happened?
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