# How Does Close Overlapping Work?

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> [@Rumo](#):
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> I’d advise against that kind of redundancy, anyway.

Agreed. Just adding to that advice:  
There should _never_ be a situation where you need to give two fields (virtually) the same content in Anki. The premise of Anki’s card templates is that you can create lots of cards from one note without much extra effort.

If you wanted to change something in that sentence, you’d have to change it in both fields.

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> [@Clozes making issues](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/clozes-making-issues/10728/3):
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> If I understand correctly, you want to create three cloze cards, while the third is a combination of the two previous ones. That would require nesting the clozes like this: I have a {{c3::{{c1::headache}}}} and I like {{c3::{{c2::smoking}}}}. Anki’s default cloze note type doesn’t allow that. You could take a look at the add-on [Closet](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/272311064), which handles nested clozes just fine. Input I have a [[c3::[[c1::headache]]]] and I like [[c3::[[c2::smoking]]]]. Card 1 [image] Card 2 [image] Card 3 [im…

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