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How to Copy and Paste Annotations

Copying and pasting annotations is handy for duplicating a note, recovering deleted ones after a Note Transfer, or moving notes across layers and pages.

Copy and paste can help with:

Duplicating an annotation (or consider making it a Saved Annotation);
Retrieving deleted annotations after a Note Transfer;
Moving annotations across layers and pages;
Manually rebuilding annotations page-by-page when a Note Transfer doesn't map them correctly (see note below).

📝 NOTE: If a script's formatting causes Note Transfer to misplace or merge your highlights (for example, when page headers and action/cue lines share the same left margin, which is common in live event or non-standard script formats), running a Script Comparison first can help you identify exactly which pages changed. You can then create a "sides" packet combining the unaffected pages from your old draft with only the new pages from the revised draft (see Creating sides from multiple episodes' scripts), and manually copy/paste/redo your annotations from the old draft for just those new pages. This avoids having to redo annotations across the entire script.

Start by touching or clicking the annotation you'd like to copy. From the pop-up menu, choose Copy; the pop-up then disappears:

📝 NOTE: Using a Note and not seeing Copy? Go to the Annotation Outline and press + hold on your note to copy it.

Next, navigate to where you'd like to paste — a different page, or even a different Scriptation file. Touch or click, then hold anywhere on the screen and select Paste:

The annotation is pasted in, with additional options (which vary by annotation type):

Cut — remove the annotation to place it elsewhere;
Copy — copy the annotation to place it elsewhere;
Select More… — add other annotations to this selection group;
Edit — edit a pasted text annotation;
Inspector — adjust the annotation's attributes;
Save — save this annotation for later use;
Layer — move or copy the annotation to a different layer;
Note — attach a Note to this annotation;
Tag — tag the annotation into a category;
Trash — delete this annotation.

What's Next

How do I use Stamps, and create Custom Stamps?
How to add Facing Pages to your script
How to link to audio, video, websites, and pages

Updated on: 06/08/2026

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