bruce, I miss informed you about the screen redraw. The pan tool is located underneath the page move tool. Next to the select arrow. I just created 3 new symbols..L,CTR, R cyc units. Then coverted to lighting symbols, then added label legends to each instance, then selected the 3 symbols and converted to multi circuit instrument. I selected the instrument to move it, and just as you have stated, the instruments tear apart. But I double click the hand tool (Pan) and all is corrected. I am using my desktop computer at work...G4, Mac OS 9.2, 512 megs ram, Spotlight 9.5.2