Preventing slides auto advancing in Adobe Captivate 8?

Hi guys,
Is there a way to prevent slides from advancing automatically in Adobe Captivate 8? I want the user to have to click a 'next' button to move to the next slide.
The closest I've seen so far is for Captivate 6, and was an ugly workaround of having an invisible button on screen that has a pause on its timer (where the pause is placed right at the end of the slide timeline).
Thanks
Erika

D'oh! Thanks for the help finding it.
I can't seem to move the pause at all; does this mean it always pauses exactly at the end of the slide? If I'm going to use this technique then (in general) I'd like to use it like this:
- short slide length, just long enough for the following to happen:
1. objects transition or move (or other fx) onto the screen.
2. the screen pauses (giving the learner as long as they need to read/complete the screen)
3. the learner has to select the 'next' button to advance
4. the objects on screen transition or move off.
5. the next slide loads automatically, i.e. repeat steps 1-4.

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