# Does anyone else have issues with the Style copy and paste + simpler solution **URL:** \ **Category:** Support & Troubleshooting\ **Created:** [May 23, 2025, 9:04am UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/does-anyone-else-have-issues-with-the-style-copy-and-paste-simpler-solution/801 "2025-05-23T09:04:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jonny487](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@jonny487](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/jonny487)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 9:04am UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/does-anyone-else-have-issues-with-the-style-copy-and-paste-simpler-solution/801/1 "2025-05-23T09:04:06Z")
Hi All, There seems to be large bugs in the style copy/paste commands. Have never got it to work consistently, but particularly basic background attributes and text never seemed to work. Plus more ‘complex’ copying of latch states ect sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t. Does anyone else have issues with it? It can and has led to buttons loosing the macros I’ve spent an age setting up, and with the undo button as well not really working, it’s more than annoying having to start all over again. Surely a better and easier way to do this, (while keeping the copying options for when needed) is to allow changes for multi selected of objects to apply to all selected. E.g I’ve selected 10 buttons of different macros and text, but want to change the colour or background to something uniform, so changes effect all the items I’ve selected. Simple. It really is the thing that makes building grids in MG much longer and fiddly than it needs to be in since diving into it, and has led to a lot of lost time and work. Any thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![MetaGrid\_Admin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.metagrid.app/metagrid_admin/32/21_2.png) [@MetaGrid\_Admin](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/MetaGrid_Admin)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/does-anyone-else-have-issues-with-the-style-copy-and-paste-simpler-solution/801/2 "2025-05-23T16:37:53Z")
Hi @jonny487 - thanks for the report and starting of this topic. Let’s make the whole experience smoother and single out the scenarios that you have found not reliable. We have made hundreds of grids with tons of style copy/paste actions and we haven’t spotted any issues with that. Please include the latching switch you find problematic and describe the actions you find buggy - we will fix it in the next bug fix release. Thanks for pointing this. ---
**Author:** ![JTB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5fc32e/32.png) [@JTB](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/JTB)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/does-anyone-else-have-issues-with-the-style-copy-and-paste-simpler-solution/801/3 "2025-05-24T04:24:30Z")
Yeah, same scenario here. Copying attributes across buttons rarely works as expected. Background Transparency always fails here. And undo/redo is sketchy. ---
**Author:** ![jonny487](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@jonny487](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/jonny487)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/does-anyone-else-have-issues-with-the-style-copy-and-paste-simpler-solution/801/4 "2025-05-24T13:34:43Z")
Hey thanks for the reply Its almost too numerous to get into specific details, but copying background attributes almost never works if only that is selected. Likewise for text. Copying for instance the on or off state of a latch is always problematic. Just yesterday for instance copied the latch-on of one object, pasted to 4 separate objects in the same pass and only 3 worked as it should, the 4th didn’t copy over. Likewise, what if I want to copy over the background colour of just the on state, I don’t think that’s possible Even if working exactly as it should, its a (IMO) a cumbersome process of going and ticking through a list of what you wish to copy over. Almost all uses for this I would think is wanting to apply to same action or changes to multiple objects. Surely a simpler and quicker solution would be to multi select the intended objects, apply a modifier key (‘shift’ for example) and any changes are applied to all selected objects. This is much more in line with how pretty much all editable software behaves. Thanks again for the continued support and listening to feedback 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![VJThomas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/82dd89/32.png) [@VJThomas](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/VJThomas)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/does-anyone-else-have-issues-with-the-style-copy-and-paste-simpler-solution/801/5 "2025-05-24T14:08:29Z")
I have observed these issues related to Style Copy/Paste and Undo on my side too ! The Latch Buttons are the most notorious. The Style Copy will paste only on the ‘Latch Off’ state. Despite explicitly going to the '‘Latch On’ state and pasting the Style, wherein the UI updates to show that it’s pasted, once you toggle between the states, it the ‘Latch On’ states goes back to how it looked previously. I have also seen it just refusing to the copy the style altogether. And Undo almost never works for me. ---
**Author:** ![MetaGrid\_Admin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.metagrid.app/metagrid_admin/32/21_2.png) [@MetaGrid\_Admin](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/MetaGrid_Admin)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/does-anyone-else-have-issues-with-the-style-copy-and-paste-simpler-solution/801/6 "2025-05-24T17:50:59Z")
Thanks for the feedback. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ee7513/32.png) [@GreenWire](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/GreenWire)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2025, 6:56am UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/does-anyone-else-have-issues-with-the-style-copy-and-paste-simpler-solution/801/7 "2025-09-09T06:56:13Z")
I’ve also been having trouble with style copy and paste for quite a while, and it seems to still be the case with 1.6.10. Copying and style-pasting background attributes isn’t working at all for me. ---
**Author:** ![MetaGrid\_Admin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.metagrid.app/metagrid_admin/32/21_2.png) [@MetaGrid\_Admin](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/MetaGrid_Admin)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/does-anyone-else-have-issues-with-the-style-copy-and-paste-simpler-solution/801/8 "2025-09-09T17:25:35Z")
@GreenWire We have tested copy/paste style to death in 1.6.10/11 - can you please confirm that you have the correct On/Off state selected? And it you experience the issue, I need the repro steps and your button 🙂 - we will do additional testing. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ee7513/32.png) [@GreenWire](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/GreenWire)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/does-anyone-else-have-issues-with-the-style-copy-and-paste-simpler-solution/801/9 "2025-09-09T19:01:35Z")
Looks like that was definitely the problem, at least on the new update. I had On State selected, once I also added Off State, everything seems to be working. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![MetaGrid\_Admin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.metagrid.app/metagrid_admin/32/21_2.png) [@MetaGrid\_Admin](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/MetaGrid_Admin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 12:36pm UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/does-anyone-else-have-issues-with-the-style-copy-and-paste-simpler-solution/801/10 "2025-09-15T12:36:03Z")