Alter individual instances

I’ve got many instances of one symbol, but i want to make small changes to each. How do I do the changes without having them automaticall carried over to all of the rest of the instances?

Open your library, right click on that symbol and duplicate it. Give it a new name and you can now edit it without having it effect the others because it’s now a new symbol.

Ah Great… gonna increase my file size that way. (-:

Yep.

Or just create 1 clip, put a stop actions on the first frame, and then have each individual frame after that be an altered version.

Then drag the clip onto the stage and apply these actions… [AS]onClipEvent(load){
this.gotoAndStop(frameNumberWithAlteredItem);
}[/AS]

Well… just an alternate method, I am not too sure if this is anymore efficient.