Need help fast, please

[glarior]

Hello
I need to know how I can do this....

I want to have some text appear on the screen and than pause untill the user clicks on the button and when the user clicks on the button the text will do another animation, how can I pause the animation till they click the button? Please help,
thanks for you help
glarior

[Billy T]

put the animation in an mc with a stop action in the first frame (or frame 10 or whatever)

when the button is click, tell the mc to play

on(release){
mcInstance.play();
}

cheers