# Duplicating Pens in Easy Chart **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** vision\ **Created:** [April 29, 2024, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/duplicating-pens-in-easy-chart/89657 "2024-04-29T20:28:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sherman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sherman)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/duplicating-pens-in-easy-chart/89657/1 "2024-04-29T20:28:58Z")
Is there a way to duplicate pens in an easy chart? I want to make a dozen pens that are nearly identical, with just the color and the name/tag reference changed. Thats less than half the settings that would be different pen-to-pen. Seems like a feature that would be part of the "Easy"-ness. I can't seem do duplicate them in the customizer nor in the Dataset editor. Am I missing something? ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/duplicating-pens-in-easy-chart/89657/2 "2024-04-29T21:56:34Z")
> [@sherman](#): > > in the Dataset editor If you open the dataset editor, you can copy the dataset to clipboard, paste into a text editor and then duplicate whatever rows you want. It's admittedly not the most 'straightforward' workflow, but for a one-off it works fine. ---
**Author:** ![sherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sherman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sherman)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 11:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/duplicating-pens-in-easy-chart/89657/3 "2024-04-29T23:32:51Z")
Ah I see I can paste that into a text editor -- I should have tried that. Thank you, this works well enough for me for now.