Editing Text in SWF file with Flash

Hio All,
I am a flash newbie. I have been asked to edit an existing
site and am coming up goose eggs. What I want to do is edit the
text in a swf movie. The movie opens up fine in flash, I can add
and delete text, but I cannot save the darn thing. Then I went to
the flash help section and the tutorials and they couldn't answer
my question, either. What am I doing wrong?
Advice is greatly appreciated.
Kind Regards - Tami Swartz

The Adobe Reader for SymbianOS isn't a PDF editor. You'd need Acrobat
for that, using the Text Touch-up Tool.
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