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title: "What does it do?"
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# What does it do? {#about}

This extension brings the extracted functions from gridelements to copy and paste content elements also as reference and not only as copy.
A lot of TYPO3 users love this features but don't know that this aren't core features.

**Basic features (extracted from EXT:gridelements)**

-   Copy content elements and paste as reference (also in context menu with right click)
-   Copy content elements from other pages in page module