How to control where a copied asset from one artboard on one page goes on another artboard?

[BlueDog007]

The best way for me to ask this question is this:

I opened two tabs in .ai

(A) One tab has a saying.

(B) Another tab has a set of quotation marks.

I want to put (B) in the artwork of (A).

Simple matter of Copy and Paste.

Question: When I paste what came form (B) on to my artboard of (A), the pasted quote marks appear smack in the middle of my design of (A).

Isn't there a way to control where the item from (A) gets pasted on (B)?  If so, then How do you do that?

[Monika Gause]

Are the artboards the same size?

If so, use Paste in Back, in Front or in Place to put them in the same position.

[BlueDog007]

Hey Monika:
I tried using Paste in Place, and the quote marks still wind up in the middle of my current artboard.

Here's what I did:  The quote marks are in a separate tab on an artboard (equal in size to the artboard in another tab.)

I get to the other tab containing the quote I want to surround with the quote marks from the other tab.

I want to Paste it, I even click my mouse outside the main quote on the artboard, I then paste the quote marks, but they still appear in the middle of the quote itself.

What am I doing wrong?  Can you tell me step by step?

[Monika Gause]

How do you paste? Using the shortcut? It would be necessary to figure out if it's the shortcut, the function in itself or something in your system that is causing this. There are apps and settings affecting the clipboard. Here is a list - do you run any of them?

• Parallels Toolbox running with the Clipboard History
• TeamVewer Clipboard > Use Shared Clipboard
• Apple iOS device simulator from Xcode
• Windows Multi-clipboard
• Windows Clipboard History
• Chrome Remote Desktop
• Mouse Pointer Highlighter
• AnyViewer
• Pastebot app
• Overzealous antivirus (Digital Guardian) as well as viruses that empty the clipboard
• Vector Magic

[Anubhav M]

Hello @BlueDog007,

We understand that technical issues can be frustrating. I hope Monika's suggestions helped resolve the problem. If not, could you kindly try running Illustrator under Safe Mode (Windows / macOS) and check if it helps?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thanks,

Anubhav

[BlueDog007]

Hello Monika Gause:

Although I do not recognize any of the apps you listed in your response, I have made a note of your response.

However, in my effort to experiment with the situation I described, here is what I discovered:

If in the artboard containing just the quote marks I wanted to transfer by coping and pasting, either of the quote marks or even both of them, where the quote mark is located on the artboard containing them, when I copy and paste them onto the target artboard of my choice and I use Paste in Place, then the quote marks will appear on the target artboard in the same place where they were on the original artboard.

This realization tells me that my clipboard may be working properly.  Either that or I just discovered how to you Paste in Place.

I was hoping: if I clicked on a point in the target artboard before pasting the quote I copied from the original artboard, that that effort would place the pasted quote mark(s) exactly or near exactly where I wanted them on the target artboard.  But that doesn't seem to work that way.  So, what I wrote in the paragraph just above this one seems to be the best way to accomplish what I want.

Gosh folks, every little thing you want to do in .ai demands you pay attention to the details.

It's amazing!

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

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@BlueDog007  schrieb:

I was hoping: if I clicked on a point in the target artboard before pasting the quote I copied from the original artboard, that that effort would place the pasted quote mark(s) exactly or near exactly where I wanted them on the target artboard. 

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That's not how Paste works. It either put it in the same place or in the center of the window.