# Copy and paste shifts

> Reproduce a slot or a group of slots from one cell to another, or from one week to another, in a few clicks.

Source: https://help.shyfter.com/en/schedules/copy-and-paste-shifts  
Category: Schedules  
Updated: 2026-06-30

Copying shifts saves you from manually recreating identical slots. Whether you want to duplicate an employee's shift onto another day or transpose an entire selection onto another week, copy and paste works intuitively from the schedule.

## Copy and paste a single shift

Go to **Schedules → Schedule management**.

**Right-click** on the shift to copy and select **Copy**.

Then go to the destination cell (right employee, right date), **right-click** and select **Paste**. The shift is reproduced with all its information.

## Copy and paste several shifts at once

When you need to transpose several slots at once (for example, a group of shifts from one week to another):

1. Select the shifts to copy by clicking on them while holding **Ctrl** (or **Cmd** on Mac).
2. Click **More** (menu at the top right of the schedule) then **Copy shift(s)**.
3. Navigate to the destination week.
4. Click **More → Paste shift(s)**.

The shifts are pasted keeping the same days of the week and the same hours.

> Multiple copy and paste is particularly useful for reproducing a group of recurring slots without going through the creation of a week template. If you do this operation very often, consider using the **Duplicate week** function or the **week templates** instead.

## Copy a whole day

You can also copy all the shifts of a day at once. **Right-click** on a cell of the relevant day: a menu offers **Copy day** and **Select the day's shifts**. Once a day is copied, go to the target day, right-click and choose **Paste day**. The Paste option only appears once content has been copied.

## Delete slots by right-click

From the right-click menu, you can also quickly delete one or more selected shifts, without going through the **More** menu. It's the fastest way to remove a few isolated slots from a schedule.