# Text Button Problem. Help!

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 20, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-button-problem-help/163175 "2005-09-20T13:42:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![victoriac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/50afbb/32.png) [@victoriac](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/victoriac)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-button-problem-help/163175/1 "2005-09-20T13:42:20Z")

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Hello -

I’m trying to teach myself flash and I ran into a little snafoo. I wrote text links in flash and then converted them into buttons. I programmed it so when you roll over the text, it changes color.

When I published it, I noticed that the mouse arrow has to be DIRECTLY over a part of the text in order for the link to work. Most of the time, the mouse goes in between the letters and I have to spend a couple seconds realigning the mouse. It’s very frustrating.

Is there any way to make the area in between the letters link as well?

Thank you so much!

Always -

Victoria