so that they stay there as we preview our next move. And to make that happen, go to the Edit menu and choose the Copy command,
00:03:54 and then return to the Edit menu and choose Paste in Front.
00:03:57 Again, that's Control C, Control F here on the PC,
00:04:01 Command C, Command F on the Mac.
00:04:04 It doesn't look like anything has happened, but, of course,
00:04:06 we do have new stars right on top of the old ones.
00:04:09 All right, I'll go ahead and press Control Z or Command Z
00:04:11 on the Mac to undo that move.
00:04:13 And I will once again press the Enter key or the Return key
00:04:16 on the Mac to bring up the Move dialog box.
00:04:18 I'm going to move it over to the right-hand side
00:04:19 to get it out of the way, and then I'll click after
00:04:22 the horizontal value and enter "/2"
00:04:24 and you can now see our alternating stars.
00:04:27 They look great, but of course they do need
00:04:29 to move down.
00:04:29 So, click in the vertical value and press Shift Up Arrow
00:04:33 a bunch of times in order to move those starts downward.
00:04:36 And at about 260 points, I think everything
00:04:40 reconciles nicely.
00:04:41 And what I'm looking for is basically equal space
00:04:45 between all of the stars in both rows.
00:04:47 All right.
00:04:48 So, having that, I'll go ahead and click Okay in order
00:04:51 to accept that change.
00:04:52 All right.
00:04:53 Now, I need to move these same stars upward to form
00:04:56 a top column, so I will this time press the Enter key
00:04:59 or the Return key on the Mac to bring up
00:05:01 the Move dialog box.
00:05:02 Change the horizontal value to zero.
00:05:05 And you're going to change the vertical value
00:05:07 not only to -260 points, but you want to multiply that value
00:05:13 So, click after -260 points and enter "*2" like so,
00:05:18 and that will change the vertical value to -520 points,
00:05:22 which produces this effect right here,
00:05:25 which is exactly what we want.
00:05:26 So, go ahead and click on that Copy button in order to copy
00:05:29 those stars.
00:05:30 And then, finally, go ahead and click and Shift-click
00:05:33 on all the stars in this middle row, press the Enter key
00:05:37 or the Return key on the Mac in order to bring up
00:05:39 the Move dialog box.
00:05:40 You can just barely see their points way up there at the top
00:05:43 of the screen, and that's because the vertical value
00:05:45 is negative.
00:05:46 It should be positive this time around.
00:05:48 520 is just fine though, in which case we end up
00:05:52 with this row of stars down here.
00:05:53 Only the top points can be seen, but it's still important
00:05:56 we do it, and that's why I want you to click the Copy button
00:05:59 in order to create a copy of those stars like so.
00:06:02 And now, I'm going to click off the stars to deselect them,
00:06:05 and I'll press Control 0 or Command 0 on the Mac
00:06:08 in order to fit the document onscreen.
00:06:10 And that's how you repeat the stars and alternating
00:06:13 equally spaced rows using a combination
00:06:16 of the Move dialog box and the Paste in Front command
00:06:19 here inside Illustrator.