# Ending a Motion Tween; Having Trouble

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**Created:** [April 7, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ending-a-motion-tween-having-trouble/256797 "2008-04-07T14:31:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![kilotrixium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kilotrixium](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kilotrixium)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ending-a-motion-tween-having-trouble/256797/1 "2008-04-07T14:31:06Z")

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I’ve always been plagued with this problem: How do I completely end a motion tween. Sometime when I start a new key-frame right beside I previous motion tween, and try to drag a new symbol into it, it swaps it with the symbol from my previous motion tween. It is very frustrating and I’ve tried to find a way to solve it, but I didn’t know what to google.

All that I know about this problem is that the motion tween timeline looks different when it’s doing what I described above. It doesn’t put a black vertical line before the black dot (that signifies a new key-frame). I’ll draw it to give you an idea:

The bad way:  
o\>---------\>o---------\>o|

The way I want it:  
o\>--------\>|oo--------\>|o  
…^This being the new symbol.

I sure hope this is something simple that I just failed to learn while learning Flash on my own. Thanks for the help, all.