Text Caption Boxes don't last for 'rest of slide'

Hi!
I have created an interactive Captivate movie (i.e. user must
click somewhere to go to the next slide) with various Text
Captions. I've set each text caption to last for 'rest of slide'.
However, in some cases the captions only last for an amount of
seconds whereas Text Captions on other slides, with the same 'rest
of slide' setting, last until you click to move forward.
Any ideas why some text captions do last for the rest of the
slide and some don't, even though they have the same settings under
the Options tab?
Please help!
Thanks!
Mark

Hi Mark and welcome to our community
It is usually all in the timing. For example, if you have a
click box or a button that pauses the slide, it could be that
clicking it moves to the next slide. In this case, let's assume the
slide is a total of six seconds long. But the click box pauses at
two seconds. So you would see the caption for two seconds, then
when the click box is clicked the next slide would display
immediately.
Or possibly the caption is set to fade in and out and the
click box or button pauses after they fade out?
What does the timeline show for the captions that misbehave?
Sincerely... Rick

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