# Commanding a MC in Root to gotoandPlay from a button in another MC

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/commanding-a-mc-in-root-to-gotoandplay-from-a-button-in-another-mc/278917>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 7, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/commanding-a-mc-in-root-to-gotoandplay-from-a-button-in-another-mc/278917 "2009-01-07T15:14:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/commanding-a-mc-in-root-to-gotoandplay-from-a-button-in-another-mc/278917/1 "2009-01-07T15:14:31Z")

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Okay, I’ve a button in MC1 [SIZE=1](MC1 is resting in root)[/SIZE] and I want it to take another MC2 [SIZE=1](also resting in root)[/SIZE] to go to a certain frame…

Supposing, the instance name for MC1 is ‘blah1’

How’ll i make the button in MC2 to take MC1 to lets say frame#10… ?