Slides don't reset when revisiting

To calrify, I know I can do it with an advanced action on entering the slide, but it's a massive pain when you have up to a dozen elements that need resetting on every slide for a few slides in a row! Is there an EASY way to do this?

You will need an On Enter action to reset some items. For that reason I plead since many years to avoid using show/hide when it can be done with a multistate object. It is much easier to have such an object reset automatically to the Normal state without needing any action.

Other items are reset automatically when you re-enter a slide. You'll read some more details in this blog post:

http://blog.lilybiri.com/replay-or-reset-slide

There are several blogs which I wrote explaining how to replace show/hide by multistate objects.

Simple.  Just have an Advanced Action executed On Enter of the first slide that resets the visibility of each object as it should be.  So if the object is supposed to be hidden on entering the slide, then have a line item in the Advanced Action that hides it.  If it is supposed to be SHOWN on entering the slide, then have an action line that shows it.

Captivate doesn't automatically do this for you because it doesn't know how your design is supposed to work.  Only YOU know that.  So it's up to you to build it to work that way.