# Assigning Instance Names for clips after "LoadMovie" in a Button script

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assigning-instance-names-for-clips-after-loadmovie-in-a-button-script/34240>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 30, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assigning-instance-names-for-clips-after-loadmovie-in-a-button-script/34240 "2003-10-30T07:11:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![bricar77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@bricar77](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bricar77)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assigning-instance-names-for-clips-after-loadmovie-in-a-button-script/34240/1 "2003-10-30T07:11:12Z")

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I’m a second day action script student with a specific goal. I would like a button to load a movie clip to a specific place. I have a button with the “LoadMovie” script and it loads the movie onto level 1, but I don’t know how to give whatever it loads an instance name so that I can direct it specifically where to load. Teaching yourself is not so easy! Any assistance would be appreciated!  
BriCar77

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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:** [October 30, 2003, 7:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assigning-instance-names-for-clips-after-loadmovie-in-a-button-script/34240/2 "2003-10-30T07:23:33Z")

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Welcome to the forum 🙂

To load an swf into another movie, you can either use loadMovie or loadMovieNum, which load to a movieclip or a level. If you load a movieclip to a level, like you did, you can target that swf by targetting level1, which will refer to the main timeline of the loaded swf 🙂