# Copy/paste fiducial control points coordinates

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/copy-paste-fiducial-control-points-coordinates/10751>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 19, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/copy-paste-fiducial-control-points-coordinates/10751 "2020-03-19T19:17:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![muratmaga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/muratmaga/32/3622_2.png) [@muratmaga](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/muratmaga)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/copy-paste-fiducial-control-points-coordinates/10751/1 "2020-03-19T19:17:49Z")

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It is not something I routinely used, so I might be off track completely, but as I recall at some point we can copy and paste coordinates from an spreadsheet into the actual RAS fields of the markup?

Right now all I can do is to copy and paste existing ones, which simply duplicates them…

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/copy-paste-fiducial-control-points-coordinates/10751/2 "2020-03-19T19:56:34Z")

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You can cut/copy/paste markup control points between markups in Slicer and Excel/text editor/etc. I’ve just tested this with the latest Slicer Preview Release on Windows and works well.

If you copy a set of control points to clipboard and paste that into the same markup then of course it will duplicate the control points.

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**Author:** ![muratmaga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/muratmaga/32/3622_2.png) [@muratmaga](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/muratmaga)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/copy-paste-fiducial-control-points-coordinates/10751/3 "2020-03-19T20:12:12Z")

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OK, now I understand. What threw me off, that I was expecting the paste overwrite the existing row where I right click and say “Paste”. it is adding as a new entry to list, which is fine…