Is there a way to use Shape Hints Effectively?
We can copy a keyframe and the shape hints stay with the shape, but the hints don't work if you reverse frames.

We're finding that every time we want to add a new keyframe for the shape, we have to add all new shape hints.
This is NOT saving time!

We don't have the original docs at this school.
We are working with
"Macromedia's Flash MX: Creative web animation and interactivity"
which, because it comes from Macromedia, I would expect explanations to be dead-on.

Here's what I want my students to accomplish:
they are animating broken apart letters.
they are creating multiple layers of the same letter. Each layer letter represents an extreme pose. Then they move each layer letter to one animation layer and they can compose their action drawing on their bank of extreme poses, and make shape tweens on the animation layer.

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