# Hopefully simple - Timeline Preference?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hopefully-simple-timeline-preference/195682>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 2, 2006, 12:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hopefully-simple-timeline-preference/195682 "2006-08-02T12:31:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Soudou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Soudou](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Soudou)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 12:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hopefully-simple-timeline-preference/195682/1 "2006-08-02T12:31:46Z")

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This has always bugged me about Flash… When you drag stuff over on the timeline, and say for example layers 1 - 6 for the first lot of frames have stuff on them, but layers 4 - 6 are empty after that. Then you find you need to put in a preloader (oops) so you select everything and move it all 1 frame over. Flash always extends the frames over and fills up layers 4 - 6 unless you put a blank keyframe stopper on all of them.  
Isn’t there some Timeline Preference I can use to do that automatically? I couldn’t find any and a search online just said about swicthing from Flash 5 Timeline setup to Flash 4 to auto put in the blank keyframes (which I don’t see in the Preferences window).  
Thanks for any help