You can copy styles using the Settings tree drag-and-drop capability.
You can drag items from the Settings tree, including styles, description keys, and pipe rules, into the drawing window to copy them, or you can drag them onto a drawing icon in the Settings tree.
Dragging Items between Drawings or Templates
You can copy the following items by dragging them from one drawing or drawing template to another:
- Styles, including label and table styles
- Description keys
- Pipe rules
To drag an item from one drawing to another, click the item or collection you want to copy, hold down the left mouse button, and drag the item to the name of destination drawing in the Settings tree. When the cursor changes to 
, release the mouse button to copy the item into the drawing. The item is automatically added to the correct collection in the drawing.
If the drawing already contains an item with the name of the item being copied, the Duplicate Item Name dialog box is displayed which allows you to decide how to handle the conflict.
If you drag a label style with one or more child styles from one drawing to another, only the selected style is copied into the drawing; the child styles are not copied. If you copy a child style into another drawing, the parent style is also copied.
Dragging Items within a Drawing
You can copy label styles by dragging them from one level in a label style collection to another within a drawing, as follows:
You can drag and drop multiple styles from one drawing to another at the same time.
- Drag a child label style (and its children) up to a higher level in the style collection to sever the parent/child relationship.
- Return the child label style to its original location in the tree to reinstate the parent/child relationship.
- Drag a child label style to another label style collection. The child label style inherits the properties of the new parent.
Both the label style you want to copy and the destination location of the style must be visible in the Settings tree before you begin the drag-and-drop operation.
To drag a label style within a drawing, click the label style you want to copy, hold down the left mouse button, and drag the label style to the destination collection. When the cursor changes to , release the mouse button to drop the style into the collection located at the tip of the cursor arrow.
When you copy a label style within a drawing, all child styles are copied with the parent style.