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Re: PAGEITEMS COPY

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From: Olav Kvern
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:23
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Iolaire, reyman--

Copy and paste work exactly the way they do in the user interface--which means that you've got to turn to the page (i.e., set the active spread) containing the items to be able to select and/or copy them. (This is only one of the things I hate about using copy/paste. But, for now, there's no other way to do some operations.)

Regarding finding the spread--I think it's easier to find all of the page items you want to move by iterating through the AllPageItems collection, then climb up the .Parent tree until you find a spread. Set that spread to the active spread, select the element, then copy, switch to a different document, and paste. Once you're inside a document, you can move the objects from one page to another using the Move method (there's no need to copy/paste, at that point).

Thanks,

Ole
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