thx for your replies. in the meantime i had discovered the dopesheet yet and it works just fine i'm an "old" 3ds max" user, so i had do rediscover the things i'm so comfortable within my software in maya first. thats quite crazy but now i have find many things in other ways. but the graph-editor is the only thing within maya that sucks. because it's really very unhandy. hopefully this will get fixed in later versions but we'll see. thx so far. s2k