: Illustrator CC Paste In Front I am unable to use the "paste in front" function. It does not matter if I use the keyboard command or go to edit>paste in front. No matter what I do, it pastes

@Eichhorn212

It could be a number of things:


Your drawing mode is set to Draw Behind. Check your tools panel to see if you see the following:




If you do, click the first option or press Shift-D until your mode changes to Draw Normal. If your tools panel is in one-column mode, the Shift-D command will still work, or look for the drawing mode at the bottom (you will only see one icon instead of all three).


You are copying from a different layer and "Paste Remembers Layers" is checked. Look in your layers panel flyout menu and uncheck that option. The flyout menu is here:





You are copying and pasting onto a layer that is lower in the layer stack than the object you want to paste in front of. In the following example, if I try to cut the rectangle on layer 1 and paste in front on layer 1 or 2, it will still appear behind the ellipse.

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