# Duplicating movie clips

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clips/11121
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [January 12, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clips/11121 "2003-01-12T17:20:40Z")
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### Author: ![thebull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@thebull](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/thebull)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clips/11121/1 "2003-01-12T17:20:40Z")

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Hello, I want to ask if someone can help me whit the isssue duplicating movie clips in some defineid stage area (x,y). I want to have only one mc whit a dynamic txt fild inside, what i want to do is multipicate this mc in the stage, in sprecifeid coordenates, and the dyn txt filed must load number 1,2,3…

thanks in advance

//thebull

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clips/11121/2 "2003-01-12T18:07:36Z")

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Here you go. You need to give your clip an instance name, and then the code duplicates the clip at random places, but you can put the clips wherever you want them.

pom =)