# Stupid question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stupid-question/11231>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [January 14, 2003, 11:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stupid-question/11231 "2003-01-14T11:12:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hammerhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Hammerhead](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Hammerhead)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 11:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stupid-question/11231/1 "2003-01-14T11:12:55Z")

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I’m new to Flash MX, started by following the tutorials but for some reason I can’t “paste in place”…where am I going wrong ? (nb I’m following the “shadow” tutorial.) :crazy:

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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 14, 2003, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stupid-question/11231/2 "2003-01-14T11:16:49Z")

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have you tried clicking on the first frame of the layer that you want to past into?

mavis

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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 14, 2003, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stupid-question/11231/3 "2003-01-14T11:20:43Z")

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It’s okay, it was me being stupid. I was holding the mouse down and “swiping” the text and copying that rather than copying the “box” with text in…if that makes sense LOL thanks for replying so quickly !