# Attach Movie Question?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attach-movie-question/151939>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 19, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attach-movie-question/151939 "2005-06-19T19:10:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![nugget](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ebca7d/32.png) [@nugget](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nugget)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attach-movie-question/151939/1 "2005-06-19T19:10:59Z")

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Hello,  
is it possible to use attachMovie without exporting the MC in the first frame.  
because i tried to do it so i wouldn’t have problems preloading, but when i uncheck export in first frame it doesn’t show up at all. here is my code just in case it mattered.

i have five buttons ‘b1, b2, b3, b4 and b5’ and 5 mc ‘words1, words2, words3, words4, and words5’ being attached to an empty mc on root called ‘holder’.

```auto
 
for (var i = 1; i<6; i++) {
_root.nav["b"+i].onPress = function() {
num = this._name.toString().substring(1, 2);
_root.holder.attachMovie("words"+num, "words"+num, _root.holder.getNextHighestDepth());
};
}

```