In some situations, you may need to reorganize the content of one or more palettes by moving or copying symbols and categories within the same palette or to another one. The drag and drop feature allows you to do this.

The Symbol Palettes pane supports multiple drag and drop, which means that you can perform the drag and drop operation on several selected objects.

To select several objects:

Please note that the multiple selection process may be platform-dependent.

If you press the Ctrl key (depending on the platform) while dragging and dropping a selection, you will perform a copy operation: a copy of the selection is created in the destination, while the original objects remain in their initial location.

The examples described hereafter are applied to a single symbol, but you can do the same with a category or a set of objects (several symbols, several categories or several symbols and categories).

To move a symbol inside the same palette:

The symbol is added at the end of the destination category.

If the destination category is expanded, you can move the symbol at a specific location, represented by a horizontal line, inside the new category. See the following figure.

You can also reorganize symbols within their own category to match your needs.

Likewise, you can move a symbol or a category to another palette.

To move or copy a symbol or a category to a different palette:

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