Customising text within child movieclip

Hi everyone,
I have a movieclip that contains a second movie clip. This inner movie clip is being animated so that it's transparency gradually fades in. If you go into this inner clip, in addition to all the objects that make it up, there's a layer of text. I want to be able to place multiple instances of the parent clip on the main timeline so that each of them are identical except for the text that exists in the child movie clip, ie. I want to be able to customise this inner text.
Is this possible to do? I mean if I place a number of instance on the root timeline and change the text of each of these instances, will they remain unique?
Appreciate any advice.

Chances are they will not remain unique, meaning if you change one, they will all change to that same thing. You need to create new library symbols for each.
A way around this.... It may be possible to make this a dynamic textfield and assign text to it via actionscript when the file is playing. If you are animating the text, you likely need to embed the font.

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