Hello pauland, thanks for your reply.

The _parent.nextframe (); synthax does not seem to work. The whole idea was to create as few frames as possible. For example, Make a project out of 4 frames while each frame on the scene will contain a movie clip. Now if I have a large file with several movie clips, if I decide to shorten the MC then I need to delete frames in the main scene. Moreover the timeline becomes too long and clumsy to work with. It's like giving a keyframe it's name, so instead of using gotoAndStop (1) it's better to use an instance name, so if you decide to move this frame it will no longer be 1 and we are into a long find&replace...

Anyway, I am sure it is possible. I've searched in the help file with no use.
It can be done inwards, so there must be a way to do so outwards as well....

Thanks again,

Availor.