Please help me understand making and loading variable classes

Question

Hi guys ,
I know that I am stupid but I just can't get this!  AS3 says you need to load variables into a class?  Please please give me a simple example
my variables look like this... (the whole point of playing around with variables was that if I had to make a change I could access one place and change them...
but now I realse that I can't access or call them outside the movie clip they are in:(
please hlep me!
var ans1="";
var ans2="";
var w1="ABN";
var def1="An ABN (Australian Business Number), is a personal number for your business that makes it easier and quicker to deal with  government and other businesses.";
var w2="ACN";
var def2="An ACN is an Australian Company Number, which is a special number that each company gets to identify it.  No two companies can have the same ACN";
var w3="Action Plan";
var def3="A business Action Plan will show What needs to be done and When it needs to be done by."
var w4="Advertising";
var def4="Advertising is producing information to let people know about your business and try to increase sales."
var w5="Promotions";
var def5="Promotions are where your business tries to increase the sales of a particular item through offering a good deal, advertising or a special display.";
var w6="Benefit";
var def6="A benefit is something good that you get.  One benefit of doing exercise is getting fit, another benefit is losing weight.";
var w7="Business Mentor";
var def7="A business mentor is a trusted guide. Someone who has experience and has been successful in business and can help and advise you.";
var w8="Business Name";
var def8="A Business name is the name a business uses to do its work.  It lets customers know who you are.";
var w9="Business Registration";
var def9="When you start a business you need to register your ABN, you may need to register your business name.";
var w10="Cash flow";
var def10="Cash Flow for a business is having enough cash saved to be able to pay your bills when they are due.";
var w11="Characteristic";
var def11="The characteristics of something are describing words about that thing.";
var w12="Charges";
var def12="A charge is something you have to pay, an expense.";
var w13="Company";
var def13="Is the same as a corporation. A company is a type of business that needs to be registered (either State or Federal) and has special legal status.  A company can put Pty. Ltd after it’s business name.";
var w14="Competitor";
var def14="A competitor is another business that is challenging you for customers.";
var w15="Constitution";
var def15="A constitution in business is a list of rules and principles that a company has agreed to follow.";
var w16="Corporations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act";
var def16="In the 1960s and 1970s, various reviews advised the Australian Government of the need for legislation to make it easier for Indigenous communities and organisations to form corporations. As a result, the ACA Act was passed, allowing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups to form corporations for any social or economic purpose.";
var w17="Corporations Act";
var def17="The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have laws that apply to corporations and these are found in the Corporations Act.";
var w18="Cultural knowledge";
var def18="Cultural knowledge is special information that is held by a particular cultural group, this could include technologies (e.g. special ways of using materials, making and using tools), stories, language and song, cultural rules, taboos, regulations and oral history.";
var w19="Customer";
var def19="The customer is someone who is buying something from a business.";
var w20="Debt";
var def20="Is something that you have to pay back. If you borrow 20 dollars you have a $20 debt.";
var w21="Direct competitor";
var def21="Is selling exactly the same thing as your business and competing for your customers.";
var w22="Dividend";
var def22="A dividend is money that is paid to shareholders regularly out of the company’s profits.";
var w23="(Microsoft) Excel";
var def23="Microsoft Excel is a computer program that lets you keep lists of numbers and also add up totals and do other sums to those numbers.";
var w24="Fees";
var def24="A fee is something that you have to pay, an expense.";
var w25="Financial Management";
var def25="Financial Management is the planning, organising, checking  and controlling of the income, expenses and Tax for a business.";
var w26="Franchise";
var def26="A franchise is a type of business you can buy. When you buy a franchise you set up the same type of business that has been successful somewhere else.";
var w27="General ledger";
var def27="A general ledger for a business is where all of the income and expenses for that business are kept in a document.";
var w28="Goal";
var def28="A goal is a target that you set yourself or your business.  Something that you want to achieve.";
var w29="Growth opportunity";
var def29="A growth opportunity is a chance for a business to get bigger.";
var w30="GST";
var def30="The Goods and Services Tax is paid when you buy things. Some items like food and medicine do not have the Goods and Services tax charged to them.";
var w31="ICN";
var def31="Indigenous Corporations Number is a special number given each indigenous corporation to identify it. No two indigenous corporations can have the same ICN.";
var w32="Incorporate";
var def32="Incorporate is what people do when they create a company or corporation.";
var w33="Indirect competitor";
var def33="An indirect competitor is selling a similar product or service to your business.  E.g. If you had a pizza shop, a fried chicken shop is an indirect competitor because it sells food and your customers might want to eat chicken instead of pizza.";
var w34="Labour";
var def34="Labour is all the work done by people (including you) in your business.";
var w35="Legal name";
var def35="Your Legal Name is the name that is on your Birth Certificate.";
var w36="Legal protection";
var def36="Legal protection means you are protected under the law from certain things happening.";
var w37="Legal structure (business)";
var def37="Legal structure is the type of business, sole trader, company, partnership.";
var w38="Liability";
var def38="A liability is something you are responsible for.";
var w39="Licence";
var def39="A license is proof that you have permission to do something.  For example, if you have a driving license you can drive a car.";
var w40="Lodge";
var def40="To lodge a form means to send it to where it has to go.";
var w41="Manufacturing";
var def41="A manufacturing business makes things.";
var w42="Marketing budget";
var def42="A marketing budget is the amount of money you have set aside for advertising and promotion for your business.";
var w43="Minor criminal convictions";
var def43="A minor criminal conviction is something small you have been in trouble over with the police.  Shop lifting is an example of a minor criminal conviction. ";
var w44="MYOB";
var def44="MYOB is financial management software for business.";
var w45="Networks";
var def45="A network for business is all of your contacts, customers and the people you know through doing business. ";
var w46="Obligations";
var def46="Obligations are things you are responsible for.";
var w47="One off";
var def47="A “one off” cost is something that only needs to be paid for once.";
var w48="Operating budget";
var def48="The Operating Budget is a record of the income and expenses of a business.";
var w49="Overheads";
var def49="Overheads are the expenses or costs in running your business, the things you have to pay for.";
var w50="Partnership";
var def50="A partnership is where two or more people own and run a business.";
var w51="Permission";
var def51="Permission is where you ask if you can do something.  If you ask and the person, group or council and they say yes, you have permission.";
var w52="Permit";
var def52="A permit is a special license or permission to do something";
var w53="Personal assets";
var def53="Personal assets are things that you own, like your car, house and furniture.";
var w54="Personal protection";
var def54="Being part of a company offers the shareholders some personal protection from legal and debt liabilities. This means that they have less responsibility than a Sole trader.";
var w55="Photo identification";
var def55="Photo Identification is a document that shows who you are and has your photo on it, like a Driver’s License, 18+ card or a passport.";
var w56="Postal address";
var def56="Your postal address is the address where you get your mail sent.  It might be different to the address where you live.";
var w57="Pricing structure";
var def57="Pricing structure is where prices for something can change depending on how much the customer orders.  The bigger the order the cheaper the price becomes.";
var w58="Private";
var def58="Private means not part of government.";
var w59="Profitable";
var def59="Profitable means that there is money left over after a business pays for all of its expenses out of the money it has made.";
var w60="Promote";
var def60="When you promote something you try to advertise or increase the amount of people who know about it.";
var w61="Public liability insurance";
var def61="Public Liability Insurance gives legal protection to the business owner against getting sued by a member of the public for things like injury or property damage. ";
var w62="Quickbooks";
var def62="Quickbooks is financial management software for business. ";
var w63="Registered";
var def63="Registered means that you have recorded your information on an official list.  You register your car to be able to drive it on the road.";
var w64="Regulations";
var def64="Regulations are rules or laws that control what you can and can’t do.";
var w65="Retail";
var def65="Retail is where things get sold in small amounts to customers.  Retail usually happens in a shop and the prices are higher.";
var w66="Service";
var def66="A Service business provides a service, like lawn mowing or accounting services.";
var w67="Shareholders";
var def67="Shareholders are people that own part of a company.";
var w68="Sole trader";
var def68="A sole trader is where one person owns and runs a business.";
var w69="Start up budget";
var def69="A Start Up Budget is the first Budget that gets done for a starting business and includes all of the costs involved in setting up the business.";
var w70="strategy";
var def70="A strategy in business is a plan of attack, or a plan of how to get something done.";
var w71="system";
var def71="A system is business is a set of detailed plans and rules for how to do something in your business.";
var w72="Vision";
var def72="Vision in business is being able to imagine and see something in the future.  To set up a new business you need to be able to see something new that wasn’t there before.";
var w73="Wholesale";
var def73="Wholesale is where things get sold in large amounts, usually for a cheaper price. The Wholesale price. A wholesaler is usually a big shed where goods are stored. Wholesale is not usually available to just anyone.";

Answer 1

no, that's not a reason you would use a class file.
anyway, your document class variables are defined on the main timeline so to reference them from any timeline you can use:
MovieClip(root).w36;  // for example  (but it's really undesirable to have coding in more than one timeline)