The FTSA editor application can be resized simply by resizing its window.
The minimum resolution the editor supports is 1024 x 768 pixels - attempting to resize the window to a smaller size will cause the editor to revert back to the minimum size it supports for width or height (or both).
The maximum resolution the editor supports is 2048 x 1536 pixels - larger window sizes are possible, but the window contents will be surrounded by empty areas in the background color. This limit is mainly for performance reasons as the visible map area won't be generated at sizes larger than 2048 pixels.

Resizing can also be done from the options menu.

In the editor, it's possible to copy or paste entire gridslot objects or individual layers. These copies do not reside in the usual 'clipboard' memory of you computer and thus can't be overwritten by sources outside of the editor. This also means that the default desktop keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste are ignored inside the editor. To copy or paste something, buttons in the various editor panels that support copying and pasting need to be clicked, but there is also a copy hotkey (C) and a paste hotkey (V).
When a grid object is selected (i.e. the slot overview panel is visible), the C and V hotkeys will copy or paste the entire gridobject. To copy or paste a single layer using hotkeys, the edit panel for that layer needs to be active first.

Copy/paste functions can be used to combine different layers from different objects. For instance, gridslot A is copied in its entirety, by clicking the 'copy' entry in the slot overview panel. Gridslot A only has a background layer, which is thus also stored in the clipboard memory of the editor. Then, another gridslot is selected (let's call it B), and from the decal panel or from the slot overview panel, 'copy' is clicked to copy B's decal layer into the clipboard.
Now the clipboard contains a gridobject with A's background layer and B's decal layer, which can be copied in its entirety (or layer by layer) into other gridobjects (or individual layers). Note, that if A and B in the above example were to be edited after being copied, their copies will not update to reflect these edits.

When pasting an entire gridslot, be aware that everything in the target gridslot will be overwritten. If the target gridslot has a certain layer, but the copied gridslot doesn't, then the target gridslot's layer will be deleted.

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