um, not quite sure what you mean. but in this crappy barbarosa gif animator this is an option called master frames.
Say you have a frame with for example, "Dude" written and a small picture of a commodore underneath. Turn on an option called master frame and then make a new frame. What was on your first frame will be on your second frame. Then on your 2nd frame you would right "busta" next to "Dude" and play your animation.
On your first screen it would have Dude and the commodore, and the second frame would be exactly the same as the first only it'd have busta written next to Dude.
BTW, you can use master frames for as many as you want.