Powerpoint Animations

My Powerpoint animations (gif animations and other) di not play in Captivate. Any ideas please?

Hi there,
Which version of Captivate and Power point do you have and which operating system is it?
Which format of Power point did you import? Did you check "Hi-fidelity" option during import (only in case of .PPTX and .PPSX)
Thanks.

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Hi guys! My apologies for not responding - when I first
posted, I forgot to "Subscribe" to this topic, so I wasn't getting
any notification of your posts. With that out of the way, I DID
misunderstand the original question. So to avoid having too much
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or ...
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accurately. The trick is as simple as stopping playback with
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you will as many click-boxes as you have bullets or other
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overlap.
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Hello All. I'm running Powerpoint 2003 and Captivate 3.
Here's my somewhat silly question. When I import a .ppt slide
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