# Changing pre existing movieClip's instance behaviors

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-pre-existing-movieclips-instance-behaviors/284568
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 20, 2009, 10:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-pre-existing-movieclips-instance-behaviors/284568 "2009-03-20T10:57:24Z")
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### Author: ![darkforces](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b19c9b/32.png) [@darkforces](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/darkforces)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2009, 10:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-pre-existing-movieclips-instance-behaviors/284568/1 "2009-03-20T10:57:24Z")

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I’ve created a graphic and have multiple instances of the graphic on the stage. I’ve recently decided to change the graphic to a movieClip. However, changing the original clip’s type to movieClip doesn’t apply the change to all instances that I’ve already placed on the stage; they’re still all graphics.

The only way I’ve been able to fix it is by manually selecting each one and changing their instance behavior from ‘graphic’ to ‘movieclip’. Is there a faster way to do this, be it a command or an actionscript code? Anything that doesn’t require me manually changing each instance would be a huge time saver.

Thanks!