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Menu What It Does

Modify Helps you modify symbols, bitmaps, shapes, frames, Timeline features

and effects, scenes, or the entire movie (called the

document)

. Offers

tools for transforming, aligning, grouping, and ungrouping objects,

arranging objects, and breaking objects apart.

Text Enables you to format text and check spelling.

Commands Enables you to reuse and manage saved commands. A

command

any action that you take in Flash, such as drawing or editing an object.

You can save commands from the History panel. (See Chapter 4.)

Control Provides options that let you control the playing of movies, test

movies and scenes, engage certain interactive functions, and mute

sounds.

Debug Provides tools for debugging ActionScript code. (See Chapter 10 for

more on ActionScript.)

Window Enables you to open lots of things, including a duplicate window,

panels that help you control objects, the Library (more on the Library

in Chapter 2), windows for creating interactive controls (which we

explain in Chapter 10), workspaces, and the Movie Explorer (to help

manage your movie — see Chapter 12).

Help Comes to the rescue when you need help. You can find a wide variety

of resources, including Adobe online forums.

Many menu commands offer keyboard shortcuts. You can also create your

own keyboard shortcuts. (See this book’s companion Web site for instruc-

tions.) The shortcuts are displayed on the menus, next to the command

name. Here are some of the most commonly used keyboard shortcuts. (For

more shortcuts, see the tear-out Cheat Sheet at the front of this book.)

⻬

CCttrrll++NN ((WWiinnddoowwss)) oorr

++NN ((MMaacc))::

Open the New Document dialog box so

you can start a new movie.

⻬

CCttrrll++OO ((WWiinnddoowwss)) oorr

++OO ((MMaacc))::

Open an existing movie.

⻬

CCttrrll++SS ((WWiinnddoowwss)) oorr

++SS ((M

Maacc))::

Save your movie. Use this shortcut often!

⻬

CCttrrll++XX ((WWiinnddoowwss)) oorr

++XX ((MMaacc))::

Cut to the Clipboard. Chapter 4

explains more about using the Clipboard.

⻬

CCttrrll++CC ((WWiinnddoowwss)) oorr

++CC ((MMaacc))::

Copy to the Clipboard.

⻬

CCttrrll++VV ((WWiinnddoowwss)) oorr

++V

V ((MMaacc))::

Paste from the Clipboard.

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