Copy/Paste or Duplicate text frames on the same page

Dorico
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Hi All!
I’m doing a songbook and I need to copy/duplicate text frames in two or three columns on the same page to add verses below the notes.

Do you have any plans to add this capability (something like Command+D for duplication).

I also don’t understand why the spacing but not the width and height fields are active when a frame is selected.

Thanks endlessly to the whole team for your continuous and great work!

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We certainly want to make it easier to copy and paste frames in future, yes. It’s a bit of a fiddly process at the moment.

You can do it by selecting the frames you want to duplicate, then right-clicking on the same page in the Pages panel on the right-hand side and choosing Copy Selected Frames to Selected Pages. The pasted frames will be directly on top of the existing ones, so you’ll have a bit of fun trying to separate them.

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Here is the relevant page in the manual as well – the only caveat is you can’t copy frames to the same page when editing page templates, they can only copy frames left-to-right or vice versa.

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Thank you again Lillie and Daniel!
Best wishes from BG!

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