flash actionscript: I am having a really big problem!!

I have a scrolling textbox. That works fine. However, I have little text
links within the box. When a user clicks a specific word in the textbox I need
them to be taken to another scene in the flash movie. I can make the text link
open a web page but not open a scene within the movie.

I have done some reading on asfunction but...I am lost. Please, please help!!
I would be so grateful

if you are able to have it open a webpage using getURL("pagename.html");

then, you can just replace that code with gotoAndPlay(framePointer);

Maybe I don't understand your problem exactly, can you add more detail to your
question?

ok, gotcha. Can you paste in the code you used to open a web page that worked?
And also the code you used to try to load the next scene instead.

Maybe we can see if there's a simple syntax or scope issue.

You cannot call AS functions with the html-style links. You can only open web
links ("http://...", "mailto:...", ect.).

You'll have to use buttons or something similar that is AS based to get what
you need done, not a text field with .htmlText.