# Too much work!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/too-much-work/81849>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 5, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/too-much-work/81849 "2005-03-05T14:25:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![jammmmmm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@jammmmmm](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jammmmmm)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/too-much-work/81849/1 "2005-03-05T14:25:00Z")

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This is a little hard to explain but I guess everybody would understand once I explain my situation. I have made a movie with lots of buttons, eg. 35 buttons, and each of the button I’ve applied a similar animation to it, eg. on roll over it turns red and on roll out it turns blue. But every button differs slightly because of the title I put on them, eg. “button1”, “button2” … “button12”.

Now the problem is simple, I’ve made like 12 buttons today and suddenly realized that it was way tooo tideous to continue making the rest of the 35 buttons!

So I thought of a shortcut, which is to just copy and paste the buttons, then alter the title later. I’ve decided to copy (ctrl-C) “button12” and make it a duplicate for “button13”. The buttons are an exact replica of each other (duh), but when I tried to alter the title from “button12” —\> “button13”, even the original copy changes.

Why??