# Duplicate mc into even rows/columns

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**Created:** [April 28, 2006, 7:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicate-mc-into-even-rows-columns/187310 "2006-04-28T07:13:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![macneilslt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@macneilslt](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/macneilslt)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 7:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicate-mc-into-even-rows-columns/187310/1 "2006-04-28T07:13:23Z")

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I how I would go about duplicating a movieclip into rows & columns

like

# is the mc

and after every fifth one have a new y value

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and so on…I was thinking there was a way to do it with the modulo operator %

but I’m not sure exactly how…any hints?