Maintaining continuity of mouse cursor between slides

The Cursor

The cursor feature is in a sense an extension of the screen simulation feature. The feature is designed to progress in a linear fashion.

Example:

1.1 has a cursor

1.2 is designed to pick up the cursor from the slide 1.1 in front of it

1.3 is designed to pick up the cursor from 1.2, etc

If you jump from 1.1 to 1.3, it makes sense that the cursor will jump to the position based on 1.2 because Storyline is building the animation based on the previous slide. It doesn't dynamically change the cursor position.

Your slides

Your triggers are set to jump to pre-defined slides rather than next slide. Thus when you move them around, the numbering will not change because the slide ID is part of the trigger. If you changed your trigger to jump to next slide, it remains in a linear structure.