# Okay, so how do you target an MC

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 10, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/okay-so-how-do-you-target-an-mc/277262 "2008-12-10T02:31:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/okay-so-how-do-you-target-an-mc/277262/1 "2008-12-10T02:31:05Z")

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geeze, been at it for 2 hours now. I have a movie clip on the time line with an instance name of clients. how do I target it?

I’ve tried a bunch of things but here is the latest:

```auto
MovieClip(root).getChildByName('clients').alpha = 1;

```

this results in no errors but no changes in the alpha property.

Thanks for any help