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Deselect your selection and make sure nothing on the Stage is selected. Select Modify >
3.
New Symbol.
In the Create New Symbol dialog box, name the symbol. For Behavior, select Movie Clip,
4.
then click OK.
Flash opens a new symbol for editing in symbol-editing mode.
On the Timeline, click Frame 1 on Layer 1, and select Edit > Timeline > Paste Frames.
5.
This pastes the frames (and any layers and layer names) you copied from the main Timeline to
the Timeline of this movie clip symbol. Any animation, buttons, or interactivity from the
frames you copied now becomes an independent animation (a movie clip symbol) that you can
reuse throughout your document.
When you have finished creating the symbol content, do one of the following to return to
6.
document-editing mode:
Click the Back button at the left of the Edit bar above the Stage.
Select Edit > Edit Document.
Click the scene name in the Edit bar above the Stage.
Duplicating symbols
Duplicating a symbol lets you use an existing symbol as a starting point for creating a
new symbol.
You can also use instances to create versions of the symbol with different appearances. See
"Creating instances" on page
To duplicate a symbol using the Library panel:
Select a symbol in the Library panel.
1.
Do one of the following to duplicate the symbol:
2.
Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) and select Duplicate from the
context menu.
Select Duplicate from the Library options menu.
To duplicate a symbol by selecting an instance:
Select an instance of the symbol on the Stage.
1.
Select Modify > Symbol > Duplicate Symbol.
2.
The symbol is duplicated and the instance is replaced with an instance of the duplicate symbol.
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