Selecting and moving screens (Flash Professional only)

When you select an individual screen in the Screen Outline pane, the screen is displayed in the Document window. You can select multiple contiguous or discontiguous screens in the Screen Outline pane, in order to apply modifications to several screens at once. When you select multiple screens, the contents of the first screen selected are displayed in the Screen Outline pane.

By default, the contents of a slide screen are not visible when you display the screen's parent in the Document window (the Hide Screen context menu option is selected). You can choose to show the contents of a slide screen when its parent is displayed by deselecting this option. When the Hide Screen context menu option is deselected, you can select the child slide screen on the Stage. This feature affects display during authoring only, not runtime playback. (The Hide Screen context menu option is deselected for form screens by default. You can turn the option on to hide child form screens in the display during authoring.)

You can cut, copy, paste, and drag screens in the Screen Outline pane to change their position in the document, and you can remove screens from a document.

To view a screen in the Document window, do one of the following:

Click a screen thumbnail in the Screen Outline pane to view that screen.
Select View > Go To and select the screen name from the submenu, or select First, Previous, Next, or Last to navigate through the screens.
Click the Edit Screen button at the right side of the edit bar and select the screen name from the pop-up menu.

To select multiple screens in the Screen Outline pane, do one of the following:

To select multiple contiguous screens, Shift-click the first and last screen you want to select.
To select multiple discontiguous screens, Control-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh) each screen.

To edit an item on a screen:

Select the item in the Document window.

To view the contents of a child screen when the parent screen is displayed:

Click Hide Screen in the child screen's context menu to turn off the Hide feature. (Hide Screen is selected for slide screens by default.)

To select a child screen on the Stage:

Make sure the Hide Screen context menu option is deselected. (See the previous procedure.)
Select the parent screen in the Screen Outline pane.
Click in the contents of the child screen on the Stage.

To edit an item on an ancestor screen of the current screen:

Double-click the item in the Document window.
The Smart Clicking feature displays the ancestor screen in the Document window and selects the item for editing.

Note: By default, items on ancestor screens of the current screen are dimmed in the Document window.

To fully render all items on ancestor screens:

Select View > Preview Mode > Full.
For information on preview modes, see Speeding up document display.

To cut or copy a screen:

Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the screen and select Cut or Copy from the context menu.

To paste a screen:

After cutting or copying the screen, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) another screen and select Paste from the context menu. The cut or copied screen is pasted after the selected screen.
To nest the pasted screen within the selected screen, select Paste Nested Screen from the context menu.

To drag a screen in the Screen Outline pane:

Using the mouse, drag the screen to any other position in the Screen Outline pane. Release the mouse button when the screen is in the desired position. To nest the screen within another screen, drag it toward the right side of the Screen Outline pane below the parent.

To remove a screen, do one of the following:

Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the screen and select Cut or Delete from the context menu.
Select the screen and click the Delete Screen (-) button at the top of the Screen Outline pane.
Press Backspace (Windows) or Delete (Macintosh).