How to move a whole animation

I'm using CS4 (actually the original fla was written in 2004MX) and have a completed frame-by-frame animation which is now in the wrong place on the Stage.
The final animation now only takes up a small part of the original stage, so I want to move the whole thing ( a complicated mixture of frame-by-frame and tweens , 6 layers and 700 frames) up to the top-left corner and then reduce the document to fit.
Am I missing a very simple solution?
Thanks
Dave

Here is a little trick, select all of the frames and right click and
copy all frames then create a movieclip then select the first frame
and right click and paste frames. That will take all the assets and
the animation and paste it in the movieclip then you will see the
animation when you put the movieclip on the stage.
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