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# Dragging-and-Dropping Within a LibreOffice Document

There are many options for moving or copying objects using drag-and-drop. Text sections, drawing objects, graphics, form controls, hyperlinks, cell ranges, and many more can be moved or copied with the mouse.

Note that the mouse pointer displays a plus sign when copying and an arrow when creating a link or hyperlink.

Mouse Pointer | Description
| Moving
| Copying
| Creating a link

If you press Command Ctrl or Shift+Command Ctrl while releasing the mouse button, you can control whether the object is copied, moved, or a link is created.

If you drag objects out of the Navigator, you can specify in the sub-menu of the Navigator's Drag Mode icon whether to copy the object, insert it as a link or insert it as a hyperlink.

You can cancel a drag-and-drop operation in LibreOffice at any time by pressing the Esc key before releasing the mouse button.

Related Topics

Copying Graphics Between Documents

Copying Spreadsheet Areas to Text Documents

Copying Graphics From the Gallery

Adding Graphics to the Gallery

Moving and Copying Text in Documents

Referencing Cells by Drag-and-Drop