Slide Notes Bug

I'm using Captivate 5, and I've had an issue with slide notes that is very frustrating.  I often duplicate slides and just swap out some or all of the images in order to save lods of time.  I've had several instances in my current project where changing the slide notes in one slide, affects one or more other slides as well.  In other words, whatever I type into the one slide replaces what was in the others.
I've checked out the forums and it seems this same issue has been happening since Captivate 2!  Has anyone else seen this with Captivate 5 and know how to avoid it?

Hi There,
You duplicate your slides - do these slides have audio and closed caption associated with them? If yes, by design Captivate considers this as re-use scenario and hence change made to closed captions on one slide reflects on all other related slides.
In case, you have a different functionality in mind, do let us know via an enhancement request.
-Manish
blogs.adobe.com/captivate

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