# Beginner's begging for help

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**Created:** [January 17, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/beginners-begging-for-help/279688 "2009-01-17T17:19:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![garmp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/779978/32.png) [@garmp](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/garmp)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/beginners-begging-for-help/279688/1 "2009-01-17T17:19:56Z")

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Please pardon my silly question that shows my ignorance, but I need help. I just bought a used version of Flash 8 and am trying to learn, but am stumped at the get go. Don’t have a manual other than a pdf version and can’t find any answers in that. Used several online tutorials, but nothing that I can find covers the specifics.

I have a circle that I want to cut in half so it has one flat side. I did a test using the crop command and it worked fine. Now, in my actual project I cannot do it. I did notice that in the test the circle when selected has a blue box around it, but in my project no blue box, the object is screened and the crop feature is grayed out. I gotta be missing something simple.

I did find out that the editable image is a drawing object while the screened image is a shape. This shouldn’t be this difficult.

Thanks for any and all help.

the simpleton,

garmp