Editing symbol from stage

I'm a very new newbie, so please forgive me if I don't use
quite the right words to describe my problem. I'm going through the
lynda.com tutorial on Flash Pro 8, and I'm in the chapter on
symbols. The instructor describes two ways of accessing the symbol
in order to edit it when you are in stage view: double click on the
symbol in the library (which worked just fine for me) or
double-click on the symbol on the stage (which did nothing for me).
Is this strange? Is it worrisome? Am I going to miss all the fun
because I can't do this? Has anyone else encountered this? Does it
work for anyone else who uses a Wacom tablet?
Thanks for any insights y'all can provide!
~Valerie

It should work - is your Edit bar open? It is located a cross
the top of the
timeline (depending on version). It will show you a bredcrumb
trail of where
you are in whatever symbol in relation to the stage. Window
> Toolbars >
Edit Bar.
Verify after double clicking you can see that you have
entered Edit in Place
mode. This has nothing to do with using a Wacom or not.
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> I'm a very new newbie, so please forgive me if I don't
use quite the right
> words to describe my problem. I'm going through the
lynda.com tutorial on
> Flash
> Pro 8, and I'm in the chapter on symbols. The instructor
describes two
> ways of
> accessing the symbol in order to edit it when you are in
stage view:
> double
> click on the symbol in the library (which worked just
fine for me) or
> double-click on the symbol on the stage (which did
nothing for me). Is
> this
> strange? Is it worrisome? Am I going to miss all the fun
because I can't
> do
> this? Has anyone else encountered this? Does it work for
anyone else who
> uses a
> Wacom tablet?
>
> Thanks for any insights y'all can provide!
>
> ~Valerie
>

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