# Dynamic text changes cursor from hand?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-changes-cursor-from-hand/258752>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 27, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-changes-cursor-from-hand/258752 "2008-04-27T22:01:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![tibberous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@tibberous](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tibberous)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-changes-cursor-from-hand/258752/1 "2008-04-27T22:01:53Z")

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I have a menu, and the menu items use dynamic text. The menu items are MovieClips, but when I set their button mode equal to true, the area over the dynamic text has a default cursor. I tried added an alpha transparent overlay, but it didn’t fix it. Does anyone know how to get around this?