Copying Structured Documents by Copying and Pasting

Copy and paste structured documents to copy them to a new location in the repository.

If you are copying and pasting non-DITA structured documents, review information in About Structured Document Copy Options for Non-DITA Structured Documents and the setting for the Only Display Structured Document Copy Dialog When Shift Key is Pressed check box in your User Properties sheet. See Modifying User Properties.
Note: This task assumes the check box is selected.
  1. Select or multiselect structured documents to be copied.
    The selected documents are highlighted.
  2. Right-click and select File > Copy.
    The documents are copied to the clipboard.
  3. Navigate to the new folder location.
    • For DITA documents, select File > Paste.
    • For non-DITA documents, press Shift, then select File > Paste. The Structured Document Copy dialog appears. Select an option to specify what content from XML entity references you wish to be cloned from the copied documents, then press OK.
The selected document(s) are copied in the new location.