Use guide layers, Using flash authoring panels, About the property inspector – Adobe Flash Professional CS3 User Manual
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To change the order of layers or folders, drag one or more layers or folders in the Timeline to the desired position.
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To expand or collapse a folder, click the triangle to the left of the folder name.
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To expand or collapse all folders, Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) and select Expand All
Folders or Collapse All Folders.
Use guide layers
For help in aligning objects when drawing, create guide layers and align objects on other layers to the objects you
create on the guide layers. Guide layers are not exported and do not appear in a published SWF file. Any layer can
be a guide layer. Guide layers are indicated by a guide icon to the left of the layer name.
To control the movement of objects in a motion tweened animation, create a motion guide layer.
Note: Dragging a normal layer onto a guide layer converts the guide layer to a motion guide layer. To prevent acciden-
tally converting a guide layer, place all guide layers at the bottom of the layer order.
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Select the layer and Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) and select Guide from the context menu.
To change the layer back to a normal layer, select Guide again.
See also
“Tween motion along a path” on page 245
Using Flash authoring panels
About the Property inspector
The Property inspector provides easy access to the most commonly used attributes of the current selection, either on
the Stage or in the Timeline. You can make changes to the object or document attributes in the Property inspector
without accessing the menus or panels that also control these attributes.
Depending on what is currently selected, the Property inspector displays information and settings for the current
document, text, symbol, shape, bitmap, video, group, frame, or tool. When two or more different types of objects are
selected, the Property inspector displays the total number of objects selected.
The Property inspector showing the properties for the Text tool
To display the Property inspector, Select Window > Properties > Properties, or press Control+F3 (Windows) or
Command+F3 (Macintosh).