# Link text in external text, How to?!?!

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/link-text-in-external-text-how-to/29761
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 30, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/link-text-in-external-text-how-to/29761 "2003-08-30T14:38:30Z")
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### Author: ![Inflicted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/82dd89/32.png) [@Inflicted](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Inflicted)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/link-text-in-external-text-how-to/29761/1 "2003-08-30T14:38:30Z")

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O.K.! I’m a step further again, love it! In my movie I now load external text. But I want words in the external text to trigger my swf’s. How do I do it? Since working on a mac I use BBEdit. Should I use html?

regards

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/link-text-in-external-text-how-to/29761/2 "2003-08-30T14:52:49Z")

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Run a search for _asfunction protocol_ in the Flash ActionScript and Flash MX sections of the forum. 😉