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Copy designs and content within your guideline, between pages, and into other guidelines.
Editor Overview Copyto 1

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Cut, copy & paste

Cut, copy, and paste content with the same shortcuts you use everywhere else. Paste within the same page, onto another page, or into a different guideline. Cut, Copy, and Paste are also available when you right click content on the page, or select the 3-dot icon on a layer in the Contents tab of the left sidebar. Select several layers to copy them together.

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Where pasted content lands

  • Content is pasted into the selected element when it fits there, such as content into a column. Otherwise it’s pasted after the selection, at the nearest level that accepts it.
  • Pasting onto an element of the same kind replaces it. For example, pasting a layout while a layout is selected replaces the selected layout.
  • Content pasted directly onto a page is wrapped in a layout or column as needed.
  • With nothing selected, content is pasted at the top of the current page.
  • Menus are pasted alongside the guideline’s other menus.

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Pasting into another guideline

When you paste content copied from a different guideline, you’ll be asked what to include:
  • Color and type styles: Add the styles used by the copied content that the destination doesn’t have. If left out, the content keeps its appearance, but isn’t linked to styles.
  • Components: Add the components used by the copied content that the destination doesn’t have. If left out, component instances are pasted as regular content, detached from their component.
Files can’t be copied between guidelines yet. Upload any files the content uses to the destination guideline.

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Keep in mind

  • Pages can’t be copied with copy and paste. Use Copy to... on the page in the Pages tab instead. See Copying between projects.
  • Components are added from the components panel rather than pasted.
  • Content inside a component instance can’t be copied or pasted into. Edit the component, or detach the instance first.
  • Fixed elements can’t be copied.

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Copying within a project

From within the Standards editor, most content and designs you create can be copied to another page within the project.
Copy to flow showing a right click action then a window with where it will send to within the projectCopy to flow showing a right click action then a window with where it will send to within the project
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Select copy to

  • Right click / select the 3 dot icon on the content layer from Contents tab in the left sidebar
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  • Right click within the body of the project on the content you would like to copy.
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Choose destination

  • Choose the page it will copy to
  • Optional: Choose the placement on the page
  • Select Done
Note: Only group and layout layer types can be copied to other pages like this.

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Copying between projects

From within the Standards editor, pages can be copied to another project in any workspace you have access to.
Copy to flow from the page list showing which other project it will copy into
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Select copy to

Right click / select the 3 dot icon on page layer from the Pages tab in the left sidebar
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Choose destination

  • Choose the workspace and project to copy to
  • Select the assets to include
  • Select Copy
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Note: This may take some time

Depending on the complexity, it may take a few minutes to copy to the other project
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Open destination project

Return to the dashboard then navigate to the editor of the destination project to find the content that was copied to it.