The action area indicates where the action takes place in a frame. In the Topic Editor, it is designated by a red rectangle overlaying the frame's screenshot. 

You may find that you need more than one action area to accommodate an action on a particular frame. For example, if you are recording the action of clicking the Home button in a browser and two screen elements (toolbar and navigation bar) contain the Home button, you could have an action area for each button.

Warning! In document (print) outputs, the action area appears in the Procedure step table for frames that contain a single action area only. Frames that contain more than one action area display no action areas for that step.

To create a new action area for the current frame:

1. Display the Frame Properties toolpane, if necessary.
    
2. Click  Modify action and print areas and choose the Create new action area command.
    
3. Resize and reshape the new action area.

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