Cursor as Pointer Hand over ALL links?

Looking to emulate what flash and browsers do for buttons, switch from the cursor to the pointer hand. It seems to happen to everything seen as a button but I need it to do that on all links. Suggestions? This is for an exe. presentation.
Thanks

just to chime in, this another "oops we did it again" by adobe.
They claimed that flash was now used to build "applications" and in "applications" you don't get a pointer finger everytime you interact with a menu / button. So now the default behavior of interactive objects is to NOT show the pointer.
They developed the original tv.adobe.com site using flash and it was a disaster. It was very bizarre and counter intuitive to interact with elements and not have the cursor change. The latest version of the site has been html-ized and all the ineractive elements now show the pointer. the site is better organized and a pleasure to use.
It goes without saying that any interactive content in the context of a browser (99% of all flash deployment) should give you a pointer finger when you rollover. I guess they thought they could change a decade of user experience.
For now you manually have to enable button mode when you want this "default" behavior. you could probably build an array of all your buttons and blast through to make the change... but its still work.

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Hi Redsmartie!
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is there a way by which i can change the pointer from the
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So it was. Apologies. The correct answer is "NO".
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
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"Ken Binney" <[email protected]> wrote
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> OP says he has a hand pointer
>
>
> "Murray *ACE*" <[email protected]>
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>> NO NO NO.
>>
>> Do not do that. The fact that you are not getting a
pointer means that
>> you have applied the link to something that the
browser doesn't expect to
>> be a link, like a <p> tag, or an <img>
tag. If the link is properly
>> applied to an <a> tag that wraps this element,
you will get the pointer
>> you expect without having to use a bludgeon to force
the pointer, e.g.,
>>
>> this -
>>
>> <a href="foo.html"><img></a>
>>
>> rather than this -
>>
>> <img onclick="foo.html">
>>
>> --
>> Murray --- ICQ 71997575
>> Adobe Community Expert
>> (If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do
so!)
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>> "KhurafaaT" <[email protected]>
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>>> thanks a lot...
>>
>
>

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