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Please make ArcGIS Pro keep the same location of any object copy/pasted between Layouts

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RTPL_AU
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Please make ArcGIS Pro keep the same location of any object copy/pasted between Layouts.

Referring to this Idea which is more specific to text:

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/when-copy-pasting-text-objects-between-two-layouts/id...

Using Pro 3.5.1 (but this is an old issue) when you copy a single object between layouts, it will be pasted to an offset location.

 

Please change the behaviour so that anything copied from one layout, will be pasted in exactly the same location in the second.

There have been comments on variations in page size or units - Those seem irrelevant as it is already able to determine a location, and then offsets a distance from it.  If the location is completely unfeasible in the destination layout, fall back to the original behaviour. 

I understand the legacy reason to offset something in ArcMap due to not having an item list to make it easy to see/find overlapping objects, but that reason is void in Pro.

I often want to copy an inset map, specific text, logo, etc from one map to another and every time I do that I have to go and find/copy all the dimensions to make sure objects are re-placed in the original location to ensure consistency between maps. This is not time efficient.

Plan B is to make it a setting in Options so that we can set the behaviour we need to get our workflows done as efficient as possible.

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AlfredBaldenweck

Not sure if this is a different Idea or not, but I'd love it if we stopped with the stupid offset whenever we duplicate an item.