# Pasting control arrays in VB

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**Created:** [November 4, 2000, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pasting-control-arrays-in-vb/39729 "2000-11-04T20:46:15Z")\
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I’m copying and pasting a large block of Labels in VB. However, rather than following my indexing scheme, VB decides to index everything backwards. Example:

* * *

1234

The - are the labels and the numbers represent the index. I’ll copy these to the clipboard and when I paste them, they come out like this:

* * *

8765

instead of

* * *

5678  
How do I stop this incredibly annoying behavior? I’ve got an array of 192 of these buggers and I don’t want to sit there and paste them one at a time! Lemme know if this needs more clarification, I can come up with a diagram or something…