# Copying / Pasting , Duplicating things in Flash

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copying-pasting-duplicating-things-in-flash/258686>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 26, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copying-pasting-duplicating-things-in-flash/258686 "2008-04-26T19:36:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![motleycrewl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@motleycrewl](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/motleycrewl)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copying-pasting-duplicating-things-in-flash/258686/1 "2008-04-26T19:36:50Z")

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Wow, this is really driving me up the wall. I’m new to Flash, and no matter what I do it seems whenever I want to copy and paste or duplicate something it never just leaves the original alone. It creates an instance so i cant edit one independently from the other. How can i just simply easily copy and paste a symbol movie clip ect. and have it be completely independent from the original?  
I figure there must be an easy way to do this?