Turning stacked strokes into editable paths

In this movie I'll show you how to expand the appearance of…this path, convert the strokes to fills and clean up the results.…The great thing about working from the Appearance…panel, go ahead and zoom out here is that…you can draw by the numbers and then…you can easily replicate the appearance of one path.…To another.…That doesn't, however mean things are always going to work.…I'll go ahead and select this curving path for example.…And then I'll…drop down to the Eyedropper tool and double-click on it…in order to bring up the Eyedropper options dialogue box.…

Make sure that the Appearance check box is turned on.…If it isn't or it strolled open go ahead and click on it, and then click OK.…Now we need to click on this path with the eyedropper.…Fairly impossible to find, however, so press Ctrl+y, or Cmd+y in the Mac, to…switch to the outline mode, and then click on that horizontal line like so, and…you can see I've gone ahead and duplicated.…All 20 of those strokes.…So I'm expecting when I press Ctrl+y, or Cmd+y on the Mac, to…