# Copying to exact position

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copying-to-exact-position/233466>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 24, 2007, 9:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copying-to-exact-position/233466 "2007-07-24T09:48:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zahmet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/da6949/32.png) [@Zahmet](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Zahmet)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 9:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copying-to-exact-position/233466/1 "2007-07-24T09:48:06Z")

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I have a problem when Im working with several buttons/movieclips often chained into eachother, and sometimes I want to take a button and copy it out to the main timeline or somewhere else. And even when I use ctrl+shift+v to copy to the same position it goes somewhere else, now I understand this has todo with the reference point, the small x that is the reference for the x and y cords.

But its rather frustrating that it gets moved around alot when doing movieclips/buttons making it imposible for me to just copy it out somewhere else.

So the questions:

How do I move the reference point?  
Is there any easy way to copy and get it to same position without useing ctrl+shift+v?