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I'm trying to find a way to keep the place cursor loaded with an image that I want to place many times... an image such as a 'New' graphic (internally we call it a 'New ping') for templated catalogue pages.
I don't want to constantly have to place or copy and paste, or step and repeat once placed because when I place these pings, I will do is choose several different pings to import at once such as 'New', 'New look', 'Updated' etc, and each of these could be placed three or four times per spread.
Is there a way?
Thanks.

Yeah, we know the conveyor can do that, but we were hoping that there was a way to do it without using the conveyor as it's not quite as fluid for workflow as we would like... but hey, if you don't ask, you don't find out!
If you've got your cursor loaded with several images, it's easier to using the arrow keys... well to us it would be.
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Desmond - it appears as though you are constructing this in the form of a 'grid' - correct? but the problem i believe is that the positioning is not being determined properly - to do something like you want here (i think) you would use what known as a 'nested loop' - this means the 'outer' loop handles iteration of the 'rows' and an 'inner' loop handles the iteration of the columns. the way you have this set up above, you are attempting to use the 'row' value to position both the row and column - this wont work and it's likely that everything is getting 'stacked' on top of one another.
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