F8 key not working on my imac with Flash CS4

I'm new to MACs and am a newbie in Flash CS4. When I selected a rectangle on the stage and pressed f8 to convert it to a symbol, nothing happened. Can anyone tell me what to do to fix this? Thanks in advance.

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