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Managing style properties

You can reorder, enable, remove, and copy style properties — like fills, borders, and shadows — across any layer. These actions work the same way regardless of which style type you’re working with.

Organizing style properties

Click and drag a style property row to reorder it above or below other properties.

Use the toggle next to each style property to enable or disable it.

To remove a style property altogether, click and drag it out of the Inspector, Control-click on it and choose Remove, or click on trash.empty at the top of the panel (if it’s disabled).

How to organize style properties in the Inspector

Copying and pasting properties

Copy Properties lets you copy any combination of styles and properties from a layer and paste them onto another.

  1. Select a layer and use Copy Properties to copy its fills, borders, shadows, inner shadows, effects, size, position and prototyping interactions:
    • Press C
    • Right-click and choose Copy > Copy Properties
    • Search for “copy” in the Command Bar (K)
  2. Select the layer you want to paste onto, then choose what to paste:
    • Right-click the Fills, Borders, Shadows, Inner Shadows or Effects section header in the Inspector
    • Open the context menu and go to Paste to choose the action you need
    • Search for “paste” in the Command Bar (K)

Paste Layout only works if you copied with Copy Properties (C). Copying with C doesn’t include layout properties.

Holding when you paste fills, borders or shadows will Paste and Replace existing styles instead of adding them.

To paste all styles at once, use Paste Style (V) — or right-click the Style header in the Inspector.

How to copy and paste properties between layers