# Rollover buttons and instances

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rollover-buttons-and-instances/292938>\
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**Created:** [July 21, 2009, 4:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rollover-buttons-and-instances/292938 "2009-07-21T04:41:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![hungryOrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@hungryOrb](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hungryOrb)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 4:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rollover-buttons-and-instances/292938/1 "2009-07-21T04:41:48Z")

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Hi all,  
I’m a complete noob, and the last time I really used flash, macromedia owned it.  
Now I’m trying to edit a .fla and specifically a menu. The menu is composed of some bitmaps, and parts of the bitmaps are darkened by flash grey rectangles and on mouseover, the rectangle disappears to show a highlight effect. Now, the bitmap also has a text next to each link, which should appear on mouseover, but because the text is part of the bitmap, to do that I need to cheat and add a white rectangle or mass that covers the text on mouseup and disappears when the mouse hovers over to give an ‘appearing’ effect…  
I know this is messy, and had I made it, I’d never choose this option, but for the moment it should work, and I’d like to redesign it myself when I get to grips with how all the layers work these days .\_o  
But the problem I have now is that the grey rectangles which are there for the highlight effect are linked. The first two menu items are not, but then the next 4 are, which means, when I make a mouseup or over change, like add a white rectangle, it adds a white rectangle above all instances of that symbol.

So… 😃 My question is, **how can i ‘break apart’ these symbols, so that I can edit each one individually?** I just wannt make a custom white rectangle to create the white space needed for the appearing text effect…

Thanks for considering