Copy and Paste

Visual Build supports clipboard operations in the following ways:

•	To copy the selection in the step properties or macro properties dialog with macros expanded, type Ctrl+M. To copy with macros and script expanded, type Ctrl+Shift+M.

•	Select one or more steps or macros and copy (Ctrl+C) or cut (Ctrl+X) them to the clipboard. The selected items are copied to the clipboard in text format as XML. If a selected step is collapsed, its child steps are also copied or cut.

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Steps or macros on the clipboard can be pasted (Ctrl+V) into other step or macro positions within the same or other instances of Visual Build. Steps are inserted after the selected step when pasting; if a macro of the same name and type already exists, the copied macro's name is suffixed with " - Copy x" to make it unique.

•	Copy an action from the Actions pane and paste it into a step pane to create a new step for the action.

•	Items placed on the clipboard can also be pasted into other applications such as text editors or email applications, and then pasted back into instances of Visual Build.

•	The contents of (the entire file or individual steps or macros) Visual Build project files can also be copied from a text editor into instances of Visual Build.