# Same symbol different instance?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/same-symbol-different-instance/36906>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 3, 2003, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/same-symbol-different-instance/36906 "2003-12-03T10:25:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheEnemy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@TheEnemy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheEnemy)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/same-symbol-different-instance/36906/1 "2003-12-03T10:25:10Z")

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Well, I have a symbol consisting of a border and a fill color. It’s a Movie Clip and I have added some Keyframes (and labeled them), and the fill color changes in each of the Keyframes. I’ve also added a “stop();” for each Keyframe in order to make sure I control the color changes (using a script).

Now, I would like to have multiple instances of this symbol, but I want to change the border of each of them (to keep it simple: one is a square, another is a circle, etc.) and still be able to change the color using a script.

Is this possible and how? If not, is it possible to make a work around - or do I have to create each as a new symbol and add the Keyframes, different colors and stop?

I tried just copying the frames from one symbol to another but this changed the symbol as well.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.