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How can I paste one object into multiple objects? When I select all the objects, it only pastes inside the top one, and if I group them, it just pastes over the entire group instead of inside each object individually? If I have a thousand objects, how can I paste one object into all of them at once without having to paste it into each one individually?

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I don't think you can do this in AD, but if you have Affinity Publisher you could probably use master pages to simplify this.

BTW, why do you need to paste the same object into more than one other object?

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Unfortunately you didn't tell us about the object types and the desired use or appearance. If the object is a raster image, you can apply it as a "Bitmap Fill" to any object and create that as a Style. This can be applied to a range of selected objects with 1 click...

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See this thread: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/152501-extended-functionality-for-paste-inside/

In that thread I say that “The pasted object would have to be centred within each selected layer for it to be of any use.” but what’s been mentioned in this thread brings up another good possibility for usage so I’d be happy to be able to have both ways as options.

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40 minutes ago, kbaqel said:

Shapes and curves into another shapes or curves

You can achieve your first example by Merging the ellipses and then cropping the star with the resultant Curves layer, but you would no longer be able to edit the ellipses as ellipses as they would now be (still editable) curves in a Curves layer.

Your second example can be achieved (up-to-a-point) by splitting the text into two and using a Contrast Negate Blend Mode on the ‘blobs’, but the colours aren’t quite right. Further experimentation might yield better results.

See attached image.

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Create the ellipses and the star.

Then select all of the ellipses together and use menu “Layer → Geometry → Merge Curves”.

Then, in the Layers Panel, drag the star layer onto the name of the Curves layer which was created by merging the ellipses.

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