Slide Notes disappear

Captivate4 / WinXP
Has anyone else had the problem where for no apparent reason, every so often the notes you add to the bottom of a slide disappear and are not there when you return to the slide later?
I know for sure I have not hit the red delete cross by mistake.
Noel
Staffordshire
England

Well what do you know....
I just tried Ctrl+S (never used that one before), and I got a "thunk"...as you rightly described it, but did not get anything when I clicked on save.
Is this an error or settings in Captivate I wonder, or just user awareness?
Noel

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