# Alter individual instances

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alter-individual-instances/24913>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 7, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alter-individual-instances/24913 "2003-07-07T04:43:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![NeoDreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ccd318/32.png) [@NeoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NeoDreamer)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alter-individual-instances/24913/1 "2003-07-07T04:43:56Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alter-individual-instances/24913/2 "2003-07-07T04:56:35Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 4:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alter-individual-instances/24913/3 "2003-07-07T04:59:24Z")

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

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 5:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alter-individual-instances/24913/4 "2003-07-07T05:03:21Z")

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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.