Any easier way to copy or make an array of lights?

Rendering Flamingo
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I am modeling a room with 25 or thirty fluorescent light fixtures. I am using rectangular lights on the face of the fixtures to simulate them. It is extremely tedious making them one at a time - is there a way to copy or array them? Also, there is a lot of stuff that make up the fixtures, the easiest way to create them is from underneath, looking up at them, but this makes the lights direction point up and I can’t seem to figure out how to reverse its direction.

Any suggestions are most welcome.

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For the direction you should be able to do it with the Flip command. I do this with vray lights all the time.