Create a duplicate of a button and change the text on THAT button only

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TIA

This could be happening for a couple of reasons. The good news is its easily fixable, and you have options.
Option 1.
From your explanation of the problem I am assuming you are using static text inside your MCs.
First, find out what's really happening with your two mcs.
make sure you aren't using 2 of the same clip (either the original or the duplicate).Not the instance names, but the actual names of the clip as found in the Library.
If they are different, i.e. "myclip" and "copy of myClip", then odds are there is another mc that holds your text inside them. So, go into either one of your movie clips and check for nested movie clips inside them. If there are nested clips, you need to duplicate each of those clips as well otherwise you will continue to have the text change in both.
Option 2.
if you are ok with a little bit of scripting, you can just go inside your mc and make your text fields "dynamic" and give it an instance name.
then open up the actions panel, create new layer, and add the following frame script:
//insert your instance names where necessary
myMC.pathToMyTextField.myTextField.text = "the text for this button";
do this for each button and it should fix your issue.
hope this helps.
M.

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