PowerPoint into Video in Captivate

I've imported a PowerPoint into Adobe Captivate but when I play it, it doesn't play as a continuous video.
Am I doing anything wrong? Can someone let me know the steps I need to follow?

Hi there
When you import PPT, you have an option on the dialog you see that determines how slides will progress. The default is "on mouse click". This will place a Click Box object on each slide that pauses playback until the user clicks.
If you have already imported and don't want to import again, edit one of the click boxes and remove the pause, then apply the changes to all the other click boxes as shown below:
Cheers... Rick

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I'm guessing the black part goes away when you view the project without Connect Pro in the picture?
I haven't managed to test this yet, but one thought I had was to try creating a one slide Presenter project in Microsoft PowerPoint. Add the Captivate SWF to the PowerPoint slide. Then add the loader SWF as a Presenter Attachment.
My hope here is that the attachment would be stored in the same folder location as the rest of it all. Then Captivate would find it and work with it.
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