# REQUEST: Duplicate button for Columns
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-duplicate-button-for-columns/19757
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [February 4, 2018, 12:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-duplicate-button-for-columns/19757 "2018-02-04T12:34:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2018, 12:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-duplicate-button-for-columns/19757/1 "2018-02-04T12:34:17Z")
Some time ago I have made propositions for upgrading of the Column functions:
[/t/19362/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/19362/1)
[/t/17941/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/17941/1)
And now I have a new idea how to make Mp3tag even more user friendly
How about **adding a duplicate button within the window of Columns**? That could speed up creation of new columns when the user wants to make a new one based on a already exiting code. And I am talking here about situations like when you have something complex like
```
$if(%ARTIST%,$if(%ALBUM%,$if(%ALBUMARTIST%,'+ OK +','- Album Artist'),'- Album'),'- Artist')
```
You would have then [in the duplicated thus newly created column] that already working content and could easily replace those tag fields with different one, minimizing a chance for errors and additional clicking / keyboard keys pressing [when going back and forth between the old and new column]. That would save time
Just think about the duplicate icon in the Action groups- that is the same functionality; and yet we have than function only in that place and not in management windows of Columns
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-duplicate-button-for-columns/19757/2 "2019-03-09T19:49:54Z")
So many nice upgrades since then we saw since the beginning of 2018, some even implemented piratically right away like the ones concerning the sizes of fields in the Tag Panel- and yet with this the situation is still the same
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When creating new actions we can select an exiting one in the Actions Group window and simply hit the "Duplicate" icon. So why is not there a similar user friendly time saving option in the Columns window, aside from the already existing buttons New, Delete, Move up, Move down and Hide?
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2022, 10:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-duplicate-button-for-columns/19757/3 "2022-06-01T22:10:40Z")
Since version 3.15 we now have the `Manage history...` option in form of a separate pop-up window. And it has `Duplicate` button for a user friendly managing of its entries
So can we have now also such `Duplicate` button for `Columns` managing window?