# Copying Dynamic Text Feature?

**URL:** <https://forum.bubble.io/t/copying-dynamic-text-feature/114033>\
**Category:** Database\
**Created:** [September 30, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/copying-dynamic-text-feature/114033 "2020-09-30T17:19:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![alex.p](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/alex.p/32/58269_2.png) [@alex.p](https://forum.bubble.io/u/alex.p)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/copying-dynamic-text-feature/114033/1 "2020-09-30T17:19:53Z")

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It would be a huge timesaver if this existed. Does anyone know why it doesnt?

And just like that, I found that you can do it for individual expressions but not for an entire formula/condition.

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**Author:** ![vnihoul77](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/vnihoul77/32/241345_2.png) [@vnihoul77](https://forum.bubble.io/u/vnihoul77)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/copying-dynamic-text-feature/114033/2 "2020-09-30T17:21:27Z")

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Why do you mean exactly by [Copying Dynamic Text](http://forum.bubble.io/t/copying-dynamic-text-feature/114033) ?

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**Author:** ![alex.p](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/alex.p/32/58269_2.png) [@alex.p](https://forum.bubble.io/u/alex.p)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/copying-dynamic-text-feature/114033/3 "2020-09-30T17:25:49Z")

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For example, being able to copy all these dynamic expressions at once: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/original/3X/8/b/8be16b3f69f6411c5ec455e6d3d3ecac2f7e80b3.png)

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**Author:** ![vnihoul77](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/vnihoul77/32/241345_2.png) [@vnihoul77](https://forum.bubble.io/u/vnihoul77)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/copying-dynamic-text-feature/114033/4 "2020-09-30T17:28:04Z")

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This way you can:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/original/3X/6/b/6bb1d35420e58085699ad7523921e6015a68fc8b.png)

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**Author:** ![alex.p](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/alex.p/32/58269_2.png) [@alex.p](https://forum.bubble.io/u/alex.p)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/copying-dynamic-text-feature/114033/5 "2020-09-30T17:29:39Z")

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Wow. Thank you! This trick would have saved me days of work XD

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**Author:** ![vnihoul77](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/vnihoul77/32/241345_2.png) [@vnihoul77](https://forum.bubble.io/u/vnihoul77)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/copying-dynamic-text-feature/114033/6 "2020-09-30T17:30:59Z")

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Aha don’t be pessimist 😆 think about all the future days you’ll save now

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**Author:** ![vovazk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/vovazk/32/86541_2.png) [@vovazk](https://forum.bubble.io/u/vovazk)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/copying-dynamic-text-feature/114033/7 "2021-08-03T18:08:33Z")

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Holy cow. I think I wasted a hundred hours in the last half year retyping these texts when I was making some minor changes to data structures. I wish I read this earlier. Thank you, mate!

P.S. Goodness me, there’s even “paste before/after” 🤯

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**Author:** ![adrianepoldo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@adrianepoldo](https://forum.bubble.io/u/adrianepoldo)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/copying-dynamic-text-feature/114033/8 "2022-09-01T15:18:28Z")

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you saved me tons of work thank you! Specially on HTMLs

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**Author:** ![vnihoul77](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/vnihoul77/32/241345_2.png) [@vnihoul77](https://forum.bubble.io/u/vnihoul77)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/copying-dynamic-text-feature/114033/9 "2022-09-04T19:05:02Z")

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I already reported this to Bubble team as I think it should be more explicit in their documentation or even just as a more explicit the context menu label with disabled options @grace.hong 😃  
Indeed, 9/10 of the customers I am coaching are not aware of this feature, including experienced developers.

### Just to make the tip more explicit and detailed

There are 3 different copy-paste options:

1. **Copy-paste a dynamic expression** : you probably know this one, simply right click on a blue dymanic expression and the copy/paste options will only act on this specific expression.

2. **Copy-paste raw text** : select some text in your editor field and right click on the selected text. The copy/paste options will only act on this selected text.

3. **Copy-paste everything (text and expressions)**: right click in your editor field at a spot where there is no text or dynamic expression ([example](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/original/3X/6/b/6bb1d35420e58085699ad7523921e6015a68fc8b.png)). The copy/paste options will now act on the entire field.
