Teach Yourself Visually™ Flash® CS4 Professional

After you have a symbol in your Library,

you can add as many instances of that

symbol to the Stage as you want without

too much impact on the file size of your

exported movie.

1 Click on the keyframe where you

want to insert your instance.

2 Open the Library panel.

3 Click and drag a symbol from

the Library over the Stage

( changes to ).

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Normally, when you copy an object or a piece of

artwork, you are copying all of the information for that

object. With instances, you only copy a reference to an

object in the Library.

Add an Instance of a Symbol to the Stage

Add an Instance of a

Symbol to the Stage

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4 Release the mouse button where

you want your ...