thanks for the reply – i’m making the animations from some vector based drawings, redrawn over different layers and exported out separately – I realise making them in flash would perhaps make more sense/be more efficient, but having never used it, and only needing several looping animations, I thought Illustrator would be do-able, and better for getting the kind of illustration style i’m looking for overall. will check the artboards again, but out of interest, what is the difference in function between forcing alphabetisation and unforcing it?