Illustrator Paste In Place to Current Artboard

[FoxCadet]

In previous versions of Illustrator, once I selected a different artboard and hit Paste in Place it would paste it into an identical X/Y location of that artboard. Now, it pastes it back to the artboard from which it was originally copied. I don't know why the team would choose to reduce the software like this. If I wanted to paste in place on the original artboard, I would have just selected the original artboard. What are my workaround options? I mass produce various versions of the same artwork for marketing purposes and this is a huge step back for my workflow.

[anniee984615]

Just dropping my experimenting here. Similar to Met1, I also had trouble pasting in place despite deliberately selecting the new artboard. I was using Illustrator 2023. After upgrading to 2026, this stopped being a problem, despite that I used the same method to select the artboard.

I also tried doubleclicking to select the artboard like another user mentioned worked for them but that didn't help on the 2023 version. I suspect this was just buggy at the time this problem presented and has since been fixed.

[Ton Frederiks]

Kurt is right, you need to select the part of the object that is inside the artboard and thereby select its artboard. Copy and click on another artboard and paste in place works.

I selected the artwork by clicking on a part that was outside the artboard and that means trouble.

[Kurt Gold]

Ton, that's the reason why I recently had to go to a boot camp to learn how to accurately select artboards in Illustrator.

Whenever I failed to select them I had to do 50 knee bends.

Still suffering from sore muscles.

[Ton Frederiks]

Kurt, you certainly learned it the hard way.

Can you give a link to that boot camp so we can refer to it when needed?

[Kurt Gold]

No, Ton, I cannot provide a link.

Certainly there are more humane ways without any camp.