Hi, I have a audio control in my main movie and i am opening a MIAW. I want to control the sound playing in the MIAW by using the same audio control on the stage. I have tried using the "tell" command it does not work. It gives the message "movie already open" . The code is is like this . on mousedown audio controll code starts ........... windownam="Movie3" tell window windownam set the volume of sprite 3 to audio_sett end tell end [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]