# Making MovieClips Bigger, wihout resizing them

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-movieclips-bigger-wihout-resizing-them/225095>\
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**Created:** [May 8, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-movieclips-bigger-wihout-resizing-them/225095 "2007-05-08T20:05:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![AJSimpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@AJSimpson](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/AJSimpson)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-movieclips-bigger-wihout-resizing-them/225095/1 "2007-05-08T20:05:19Z")

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Hello,

Well, let’s say I have a MC with 10 lines of text in it. And It’s 100x100 in size. if I issue this actionscript:

```auto
samplemc._width = 200;
samplemc._height = 200;

```

It makes the MC bigger, but I can only see the same 10 lines, only two times bigger.

My question: Is there a way of making a MC bigger (or smaller) in a fashion, that you change the area of it, not it’s size (thus making me able to see 20 lines of text). If this requires actionscript 3.0, I would still love to hear it.

Thank You!