Mouse Clicks in Captivate

I have a number of captivate animations that have mouse
clicks. However even though I have set and checked all mouse clicks
the 'click' audio does not consistently work. Is there a trick to
setting the audio click.
I am using Captivate V2.0.0 build 1177

Hi Mike Wald and welcome to our community
Sorry, but I'm a bit confused by your post. Which is true?
Are you saying that a mouse click is heard and you don't want
it to be? If so, take a look at the links below:
Link One
Link
Two
Or is it that you
want to hear mouse clicks and are not? In this case, other
than checking each mouse movement, I'm a bit stumped.
Cheers... Rick

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