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Duplicating works very similarly to Copy and Paste; a little bit different, and we'll see the nuances as we move on here. If you select an object you can choose Edit, Duplicate like that, and it places a duplicate there. Now where does it place it? Well, you never know. It places it in different places and I can explain how it works it out but let me move into it a little bit further before we do that. And again, it works the same with text: Edit, Duplicate Ð places a duplicate on the page. Now this is one of the features I don't use too much because I prefer a different way. The way I like to do it is select the object like that, and then I'll hold down the Control Alt, or Command Option, keys, and look how, when I'm over this object, they change. If I'm nowhere nothing happens but as soon as I go over this object it changes where we've got the Duplicating arrows and I press and drag like that, and there, I've duplicated it. It's a little bit easier and faster once you get used to it. Again, it's one of those things that you've got to remember the Modifying keys, but if you do it enough it comes naturally. Now notice how I moved it, let's say, about two inches there. Let's select this object again and choose Edit, Duplicate Ð what we started off with Ð ah! It's moved it two inches not on top of it. Let me use my Keyboard Modification option again and I'm going to hold down Control Alt, or Command Option and move it like that, leaving the original, duplicating it. I'll delete it. Now I'll choose this, and choose Edit, Duplicate. Look where it places it. So, when you use the Duplicate option from the Edit Menu it repeats the last duplication that was done by whatever method you did it. So, Edit, Duplicate, it just moves it out like that. So let me select that, and this, and delete it, and remember you can do it a Multiple Objects, so I can select this, hold down the Shift key, select the text, hold down the Control Alt, Command Alt, and the Shift key. If you've got multiple objects selected you need the Shift key as well; drag it across like that and there I have duplicated it. Let me delete that. There's one more Modification key that you can use. When you select it hold down Control Alt Command Alt, start duplicating it like that, but if I hold down the Shift key at the same time, a little bit of dexterity with the fingers, it'll constrain it as the Shift key normally does to a straight line. Now once you've done it like that remember, if we choose Edit, Duplicate, Edit, Duplicate Ð it's repeating the same step so it's effectively having the spacing between each of these objects exactly the same, which actually takes us to the next feature, which is Step and Repeat. I'm going to switch over to a different document. Here we have a business card set up and we'll take a look at how Step and Repeat works. Let me go into Normal Mode here, and here we can see how the business card is set up. I've got Guides in here, and this is a standard U.S. business card, three and a half by two inches. I'm ignoring bleeds for the time being because we're not actually going to print it, so for the purposes of this it doesn't matter. I've got one name here and if we're going to print them all together and then just change the names we'll just print them 8-up on a sheet of eight and a half by 11. And I've got everything grouped together here so I can pull down the Edit Menu and choose Step and Repeat. Now the repeat Time, let's repeat it once; Horizontal Offset, it's a business card so it's 3.5 wide. We can preview it here, look at that, and that's exactly where we want it, so we'll click on OK. I'll hold down the Shift key so that both are selected, Edit, Step and Repeat, and notice again how it defaults to the previous one, that's kind of what it does. We need three more down here so we'll change this to 3. It's not going to let me do it, why is that? Because there isn't room for three over here to the right so it's stopping me, so I've got to set this to zero first and then I can go to 3 here, and the Vertical Offset is going to be two inches, the size of the business card. I'll just hit the Tab key so we can see the duplicate and, it actually has to be 2.5 because I've set up the card incorrectly, like that, and click on OK, and there it stepped and repeated everything the same way. So, my measurements were a little bit off there, but I think you get the idea that it just duplicates everything fast like that. Step and Repeat Ð a very useful feature.