Scale and copy problem

hey I was wondering if anyone can help me, im trying to do a tutorial in a magazine and one portion of the work needs me to scale and copy using the command shift+alt problem is this doesnt work, the shift key alone does constrain the proportions and holding alt with shift contrains it from the centre point but it doesnt copy, holding alt alone does copy thou... this command doesnt work , I can do this using the scale tool but it the work needs to be very precise and the scale tool is more awkward cos i need to keep setting the point and its not always exactly the same... so basically why doesnt shift+alt constrain and copy a shape? any help would be great. my comp is new and dont have any bugs or other issues.. any help will be great! thanks

lucillecasamadera,
I've been using Illustrator since 1988. I have been an Adobe Certifed Expert in Illustrator since CS2. I can assure you you've either misunderstood the tutorial or the tutorial is simply wrong. (that does happen)
Dragging a transform handle with the Alt key will never result in a copy. Illustrator simply does not work that way. There's nothing wrong with your version. You are trying to do something Illustrator does not do.
You must use a dedicated tool (scale, rotate, skew, selection) in order for the Alt key to generate copies when dragging.
You can argue it all you want... but that's the answer. Sorry it's not the one you wanted to hear.

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