Creating a scrollbar in Flash

I am designing my first simple website with Adobe Flash, and I have run into a problem. When I do publish preview, I notice that no scrollbar appears in the browser; therefore, only part of my content is shown. How can I create a scrollbar in Flash so that when someone views my webpage they will be able to scroll down and view all of the content on the page?
Please help!
Thank you

Just a gentle reminder that there is no such thing as a "Flash Website". Only HTML, PHP, ASP, etc Websites that happen to have some Flash content.
It's the HTML that provides the container for " my first simple website with Adobe Flash". The Flash of and by itself is not a Website.
The Web browser parses (reads) the HTML and then displays all the content (including the Flash content) according to certain rules and instructions... like whether or not to display scrollbars on a certain part of the page. So it's not the Flash part that you go into and change, it's the HTML.
This can be done with Dreamweaver (if you have it) or a simple, free program like NotePad++:
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
The "Publish" settings in Flash allow you to test the Web page by automatically adding in the HTML.... which is usually overbloated code that often doesn't work... as you are finding out. So while "Publish" can create an HTML Web page (with Flash content), I don't recommend it except for testing purposes.
It's really best to use a Web page editing program (DW or NotePad++, etc. to actually place the Flash on the page or edit the mistakes made by the Flash "Publish". Getting started with a Web page editing program will give you more display options for your Flash as well as a means to improve SEO of your Flash content. I'd recommend that eventually you migrate to using swfobject to display your Flash content on the HTML Web page:
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
but get your page up and working first if you like and then study and work on implementing swfobject and "alternate" HTML content for enhanced SEO.
So open your HTML Web page in either program and view the code used to make up the page (NOT the visual display of the page). Look up in the document <head>(the top part of the document code) for the line:
overflow: hidden;
change that to
overflow: auto;
Then SAVE the edited HTML file.
If you still have problems finding the offending line, post a link and someone here would be glad to show you.
Best wishes,
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