# Duplicating movies?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movies/118091
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 2, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movies/118091 "2004-08-02T18:31:29Z")
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### Author: ![simonsebergsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@simonsebergsen](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/simonsebergsen)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movies/118091/1 "2004-08-02T18:31:29Z")

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I have a made a sweet button inside a movie clip. I want to make more buttons with the same attributes but another name offcourse.

I tried to duplicate adn copy/paste and i didt get it to work.  
Any tips?

great

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### Author: ![ruski\_flasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e8cbc/32.png) [@ruski\_flasher](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ruski_flasher)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movies/118091/2 "2004-08-02T18:33:56Z")

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open the library window, right click the symbol you wish to duplicate, and click ‘duplicate’. 🙂