Google AdWords Gets Copy And Paste Functionality In The Web UI

By Ginny Marvin

Published: October 3, 2013 at 1:54 pm

AdWords Editor is great for editing and building out campaigns and ad groups, but sometimes it would just be nice to break up an ad group, clone a campaign, or copy keywords on the fly right in the Web UI. Now you can. This week, Google added copy and paste functionality to the Web UI.

You can now copy keywords, ads, ad groups, or entire campaigns. The copy and paste options are in the Edit menu drop down, as shown below. Better yet, simply use Ctrl-C/Cmnd-C and Ctrl-V/Cmnd-V.

You may see “Copy to” in the drop down instead of just “Copy” as shown in the Google’s screenshot above. You may also not see the option to “copy keywords as paused” that’s shown.

When copying keywords, you’ll also be prompted to select both the campaign and ad group where you want to copy them.

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Ginny Marvin

Ginny Marvin was Third Door Media’s former Editor-in-Chief (October 2018 to December 2020), running the day-to-day editorial operations across all publications and overseeing paid media coverage. Ginny Marvin wrote about paid digital advertising and analytics news and trends for Search Engine Land, MarTech and MarTech Today. With more than 15 years of marketing experience, Ginny has held both in-house and agency management positions. She can be found on Twitter as @ginnymarvin.