# Duplicating lists: what are the conditions?

**URL:** <https://club.useclear.com/t/duplicating-lists-what-are-the-conditions/3150>\
**Category:** New Clear\
**Tags:** feature-request, how-to\
**Created:** [August 25, 2024, 7:36pm UTC](https://club.useclear.com/t/duplicating-lists-what-are-the-conditions/3150 "2024-08-25T19:36:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Sinaasappel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/club.useclear.com/sinaasappel/32/2039_2.png) [@Sinaasappel](https://club.useclear.com/u/Sinaasappel)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 7:36pm UTC](https://club.useclear.com/t/duplicating-lists-what-are-the-conditions/3150/1 "2024-08-25T19:36:29Z")

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I’m not sure if this is a feature request or if I’m making some kind of mistake. One of the zillion things I use Clear for is to create packing lists with subheadings, and spending time to make the same lists over and over again feels very counterintuitive to how smart/efficient Clear works otherwise.

When I screenshot =\> text =\> copy text a relatively short list of items, and I paste, _I get the list items separately, with the title of the list above it as another item_. This is great, this is what I want!

But when I do the exact same thing with a much longer list (which I want to do with packing lists), it will paste the entire text in _1 item_.

What are the conditions or limits to being able to **duplicate / copy-paste all items in a list**?

If there are no conditions, **how** do I duplicate a long list?

And if the conditions are limiting at the moment (e.g. up to 10 items or something), the **feature-request** would be to make that have no limit, please. 🙏

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**Author:** ![phillryu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/club.useclear.com/phillryu/32/1_2.png) [@phillryu](https://club.useclear.com/u/phillryu)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 2:53pm UTC](https://club.useclear.com/t/duplicating-lists-what-are-the-conditions/3150/2 "2024-09-05T14:53:11Z")

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What you’re describing sounds like a bug! It should still work as you expect for longer lists. Let me see if we can test this here a bit today and reproduce the issue.

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**Author:** ![ben](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/club.useclear.com/ben/32/1950_2.png) [@ben](https://club.useclear.com/u/ben)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 7:41pm UTC](https://club.useclear.com/t/duplicating-lists-what-are-the-conditions/3150/4 "2024-09-05T19:41:17Z")

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In our testing we’ve been able to reproduce this issue just a couple times, but are having difficulty consistently replicating it & nailing down the potential triggers.

If anyone has any more specifics about encountering this issue, please feel free to post here or message [help@impending.com](mailto:help@impending.com) via iMessage or the Support link in Clear!