If you click a frame on the Animation Frame Gallery, and then click the Copy button, you create a new frame with all the shapes in frame 1 (or whichever).

Your way is good, keeping shapes on the pasteboard, though. A named shape, or group of shapes, can always be put "off stage" and then brought back on stage in a different frame.

I don't know about SWF animation being less used on the Web, but in any event, when you own Xara, you own an animation product, too, and despite some limitations, you consider the price—in a way, it's free, inside Xara.

Let's see some more of your work, okay, csehz?

My Best,

Gary