# Movieclip copy vs duplicating

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-copy-vs-duplicating/190655
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**Created:** [June 13, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-copy-vs-duplicating/190655 "2006-06-13T19:13:23Z")
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### Author: ![mpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@mpr](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mpr)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-copy-vs-duplicating/190655/1 "2006-06-13T19:13:23Z")

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I’m having a meltdown…  
I have a great movieclip that is a button for a menu. On the clip is written a menu item. What I want to do is duplicate the movieclip so I can have more menu items but change the item name for each one. But every time I duplicate the clip and try to change the text the original one changes as well. How do I separate them?