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filcot
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July 14, 2021
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Paste in place problem Indesign

  • July 14, 2021
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Hi, I can't seem to get Paste in place in Indesign to work as I would like it to. 

I want to copy a bunch of object from one page to the exact same position on another page. When I use the command it only pastes the objects over the objects I copied so I get duplicates. I tried to make the page I wanted the objects pasted to active via the Layers tab but this doesn't help, neither does clicking on an object on the target page. 

 

Any suggestions?

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    Spenno
    Spenno
    Inspiring
    July 14, 2021

    This tends to happen if you haven't quite scrolled completely to the next page/spread in the document. The desired page needs to be active or it will just place it exactly where you copied it from. 

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      filcotAuthor
      New Participant
      July 14, 2021

      Thanks. I got it to finally work when I'm working several pages down, but I can't get it to work when I want to paste to the following page on the same spread. I click the page in my view, I double click in the Page tabe, doesn't help.

      Spenno
      Spenno
      Inspiring
      July 14, 2021

      Ah I see. I believe paste in place works on spreads, not individual pages. In documents with hundreds of pages I've had to do them in two hits, ie on the left then right...

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