Right, a quick explanation:

I create websites for local businesses and have a vast amount of resources including a lot of full flash sites. Being a complete beginner with the usage of Flash I feel a little out of depth when tinkering.

I have Dreamweaver MX & Flash MX along with the remainder of the suite including Fireworks, freehand etc... but am at a complete loss when it comes to editing say for example a full flash template.

The full flash template has latin text for example with some naff images, but what I need to learn fast is the basics of editing that latin text and images so I can mould it around a particular business.

Can anyone help me out with a few beginner tips to get started or direct me to a no-nonsense tutorial, or even guide me through the process? I've played with the MX collection for ages now and seem to be getting absolutely nowhere STILL - surely there's a simple way to just edit the text, header and images in a full flash template?

I'm sooo desperate to learn more about this I'm offering 250Mb space, 3GB width, Unlimited SQLs, Unlimited email & FTP and a sub-domain for LIFE to anyone who can help me edit successfuly a Full Flash tetmplate.

Best regards

Tricksy
www.optimetrix.co.uk

Since no one else has replied, I'll have a go. I'm by no means a flash expert but I've put some small animations together for the odd website.

As far as text editing goes you ought to be able to select the text objects with the selection tool (black arrow, shortcut V), and then edit them using the text tool ('A' symbol, shortcut T). Moving that tool over the text ought to change the cursor to an I-beam and you can click to put a text cursor into the text which you can then edit. You can also change fonts/colours/strokes etc in the properties panel which changes to show these options when text is selected. The properties panel is usually displayed by default, but you can bring it up from the 'window' menu if not (you need an open document for the choice to be available).

Changing images around can be done quickly using the library panel, again accessed from the window menu. Find the image in this list you want to change over - they are listed by filename and will have the 'Kind' column marked 'Bitmap'. Selecting them will show a preview of the image in the library panel. To change it, right click and select Properties..., and then click Import... in the Dialog that pops up. Browse to the new image and select it, then click the Update button to make the change.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for taking the time to reply Oberon, I'm currently recieving help from a very kind person in Cyprus and am making great strides in learning flash basics. The Cypriot will soon be enjoying free hosting also, but thanks again Oberon