Pause the start of each slide, click Play to continue

Hi,
I have a lot of Captivate questions but I'll stick to one for
now...
Is it possible to have it so, for each slide, when the user
clicks "Next" the next slide appears but it pauses at the start,
and the user would have to click Play to start the slide? We want
the users to have more control over the movies.
Can it be done in Captivate or to an imported Captivate SWF
using the variables? I tried the combining rdcmndNextSlide = 1 and
rdcmndPause = 1 but it only does one variable command (weird), in
this case the rdcmndNextSlide.

Welcome to our community, Joel
The simplest way to accomplish this goal is to insert a Click
Box object on each slide. Perhaps consider timing each one to pause
at .2 seconds into the slide.
It's simple to do. Just insert one on the first slide.
Configure it as desired. Copy to the clipboard. Select all the
remaining slides and paste in a single action to populate each of
the remaining slides with the Click Box.
Cheers... Rick

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