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Copying elements between designs

Renée Meloche
Renée Meloche
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Use keyboard shortcuts to copy and paste icons, images, text, smart lists, smart charts, and single smart shapes across different pages and different designs.

Open your designs

Open each design in a separate browser tab. When you copy the element from the design, it will be temporary saved to your device's clipboard, allowing you to paste it into other designs. 

From My Designs on the Venngage homepage, a user clicks on a design thumbnail to edit, and the design opens in the Venngage Editor. The design shows a large photo of a person with long hair, wearing glasses and smiling, next to a white rectangle and a text box, as well as a pink icon of quotation marks. The background shows a pink, blue and purple gradient. The user clicks and drags their cursor over several elements, including the text, shapes and icon, on the design canvas. The user right-clicks on the selected elements and selects 'Copy' from the context menu. The user clicks on another tab open in their browser, which shows a different design canvas. This design canvas has a light blue and grey gradient background and an overall pattern of scallops. The user pastes the elements they selected from the first canvas on this second canvas; the white rectangle, text box, and pink quotation marks appear on the second canvas, with the same configuration and size they had on the first.

 

Select all items that you want to copy on the design canvas. To copy, either:

  • Hold down the Shift button on your keyboard and click on items to select, or
  • Click and hold to drag your cursor over the items on the design canvas to select them all at once. There are two ways to select multiple items at once: 

A blue bounding box will appear around the items you select; any items not in the bounding box are not selected.

Copy and paste the items

Copy with the right-click context menu, or use use Command-C (Mac) or Ctrl + C (PC).

Open the browser tab with the design canvas you want to paste in, and right-click to paste with the context menu, or use Command-V (Mac) or Ctrl + V (PC).

A close-up of a design canvas in the Venngage Editor. A user has selected multiple elements on the canvas, and right-clicks on the elements; the context menu appears, with the following options: Copy, Paste, Duplicate, Delete, Move forward, Move backwards, Move to front and Move to back. The user clicks 'Copy' to copy the items.

 

6. The copied items are automatically grouped once they are pasted into the second design. Use the handles at the edges of the grouped items to resize them. You can ungroup the items using the steps outlined in this help article.

One of the items I selected didn't copy over, why didn't it work?

When an item is locked to the canvas it won't be selected. 

Unlock the icon, text or element and then select it; copy and paste it to the other design canvas. 

A user is working on a design in the Venngage Editor. The design shows a large photo of a person with long hair, wearing glasses and smiling, next to a white rectangle and a text box, as well as a pink icon of quotation marks. The background shows a pink, blue and purple gradient. A user hovers over the photo, and a red bounding box and lock icon in the top right corner appears, indicating the photo is locked to the canvas and can't be copied. The user clicks on the photo and clicks the red Lock icon in the top toolbar. The user then clicks and drags their cursor over the elements on the design canvas, including the photo, text, shapes and icon, on the design canvas. The user clicks on another tab open in their browser, which shows a different design canvas. This design canvas has a bright yellow gradient background. The user pastes the elements they selected from the first canvas on this second canvas; the photo, the white rectangle, text box, and pink quotation marks appear on the second canvas, with the same configuration and size they had on the first.

My background was not copied over, what do I do?

Backgrounds that you add using the Background tool in the left sidebar won't copy over, as they are the base of the design canvas. Any photos or shapes used in the background can be copied over, as long as they are unlocked. 

You can change the background of your new design to match another one with the Background tool.

The stuff I copied over doesn't fit on the design canvas, how do I fix this? 

If you're transferring items between design canvases of different sizes, either resize the page using the Settings menu, or resize the items so they fit on the canvas.

 

 

The feature(s) discussed in this article is available on the following Venngage subscription plans: Free, Premium, Business and Enterprise.

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