# Newbie help with kirupa.com tutorial

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**Created:** [May 21, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-help-with-kirupa-com-tutorial/52279 "2004-05-21T19:39:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-help-with-kirupa-com-tutorial/52279/1 "2004-05-21T19:39:55Z")

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i’m ridiciously inexperienced with this flash thing, and my goal’s to learn it by the end of tonight.

so there’s this tut here, for a simple drop-down menu which i’m using to learn about symbols and actionscripts. but i have a question

the tut’s here:  
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dropdownmenu.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dropdownmenu.htm)

on the last step (step vi). it says:

> Now click on the new symbol and add this piece of code on it:

[font=Courier New][color=#0000ff]on(rollOver) {  
gotoAndStop(“closed”);  
}[/color] [/font]

This just tells the timeline to go to frame 1 (labeled “closed”) when the cursor rolls over the symbol!

i doubled clicked on the new symbol, but the “action” menu doesnt allow me to type/paste anything in. so where am i suppose to add that piece of code? i download the final source file, and the menu works, but the action thing still isn’t there. so i have no idea where i’m to type that code in.

thanks in advance for the help.