Changing frames within a symbol

Can anyone tell me how to change frames within a symbol, by using a button in the actuall stage. Every time I try searching for it, I get lost in half compleated answers, action script 2, and things that throw a ton of code and words and stuff at me, but never explain the parts of it. (Often also has losts of additional code that I probally don't need)
I've got the button, but I need the function.

I can see from your other posts you are familiar with coding a button, so... In your button event handler function you would use something like...
symbolName.gotoAndStop(someFrame);
where symbolName is whatever instance name you assign to the movieclip symbol and someFrame is either a number or a label for the frame you want to change to.

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