Question about the 'paste over selection' shortcut in Illustrator that I thought was just a gimmick

Honestly, I thought the 'paste in place' and 'paste over selection' shortcuts were just for show until I had to align 50+ icons across 10 artboards last week, and using Command+F and Command+B cut my time from an hour to maybe 15 minutes, so has anyone found a better use for those paste commands in their own projects?

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finleybutler9d ago

My 200-layer file agrees with @the_miles, those paste tricks are secretly the best part of Illustrator.

the_miles10d ago

Those shortcuts saved me when I was laying out a huge poster with tons of repeated elements!