# Symbol weirdness

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/symbol-weirdness/306139>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 10, 2010, 9:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/symbol-weirdness/306139 "2010-03-10T09:48:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![marypoppins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@marypoppins](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/marypoppins)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 9:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/symbol-weirdness/306139/1 "2010-03-10T09:48:22Z")

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Im using CS4 and Ive been following some tuts but I cant understand whats happening.  
These are the steps-  
1.Draw object -tick  
2.Convert to movieclip -tick  
3.Double click and go inside movieclip and make a motion tween.- This is where something weird happens. When I try to create the tween Flash says “you must convert to symbol before you can make a motion tween”.  
I thought I already did this in step 2.  
Where am I going wrong? The tut I followed didnt appear to have to make a symbol twice so how come I have to?