How To Resize Animated GIF's All At Once?

I have seen people say you can resize an animated GIF in
Fireworks without doing it one frame at a time, but nobody says
exactly how. Maybe I'm missing something simple, but is this
possibe and if so, how do you do it?
I tried using the forum search but it didn't find any
results.
I'm using Fireworks 9.0.1.1213 if that makes a
difference.

If you look in the frames window, you will see that each
frame has a gray
box on the left. Click that gray box by the first frame and
the last frame
to turn on onion skinning. You'll know if it worked because
there will be
two little icons, one pointing up and the other pointing
down, with a line
connecting them through all the onion skinned frames.
HTH;
Amy
"Louie55" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I have seen people say you can resize an animated GIF in
Fireworks without
> doing it one frame at a time, but nobody says exactly
how. Maybe I'm
> missing
> something simple, but is this possibe and if so, how do
you do it?
>
> I tried using the forum search but it didn't find any
results.
>
> I'm using Fireworks 9.0.1.1213 if that makes a
difference.
>

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