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title: Copying and moving pages, creating linked pages
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

You can perform the _copy_, _move_ and _create linked page_ operations with pages quickly by dragging and dropping in the content tree.

## Copying and moving pages in the Pages application

1. Open the **Pages** application.
2. Depending on the operation that you want to perform, you may need to hold one of the following buttons:
   1. **Move** - drag and drop only
   2. **Copy** - hold CTRL while performing drag and drop
   3. **Create linked page** - hold CTRL+SHIFT while performing drag and drop
3. In the **Content tree**, select the page that you want to move.

   ![](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k12sp/copying-and-moving-pages-creating-linked-pages/selecting_document.png)
4. Move the mouse to the target location while still holding down the mouse button.

   ![](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k12sp/copying-and-moving-pages-creating-linked-pages/moving_document.png)

   > **Tip:** **Tip**: If you drag the page a bit to the right, the page is placed under the page above it.
   >
   > ![](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k12sp/copying-and-moving-pages-creating-linked-pages/moving_document_child.png)
5. Release the mouse button.

The system moves the page to the chosen location.

## Creating linked pages in the Pages application

Linked pages represent a link pointing to another page in the content tree. These links do not store any content by themselves but they have their own configuration for certain properties tabs.

Linking is only supported on Portal Engine sites and is **not** available for content-only (MVC) pages.

### Copying vs. linking pages

When you create a copy of a page, the new page behaves as an independent page. This means that if you edit the copied page, the original page is not affected.

If you want the copied page to reflect changes made to the original, you need to create a linked page. The linked page is a virtual copy that exists in the new location, but its content is linked to the original page – changing the original means that the virtual copy changes as well, and vice versa.

> **Note:** **Linking pages prerequisite**
>
> To create linked pages in the _Pages_ application, your administrators first need to allow creating linked pages for the selected page type scope in the _Page types_ application on the _Scopes_ tab.

### Linking a page

1. Open the **Pages** application.
2. In the content tree, press and **hold CTRL + SHIFT**, and **drag the page** you want to create a link for to the desired place in the content tree.

   ![Creating a linked page](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k12sp/copying-and-moving-pages-creating-linked-pages/LinkingPages.png "Creating a linked page")

   > **Tip:** **Tip**: If you drag the page a bit to the right, the page is placed under the page above it.
3. Release the mouse button. The following confirmation dialog appears.

   ![](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k12sp/copying-and-moving-pages-creating-linked-pages/creating_linked_pages.png)
4. (Optional) Select **Copy page permissions** if you want the linked page to retain the same [permissions](https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/managing-users/configuring-permissions/configuring-page-permissions/page-level-permissions-acls.md) as the original.
5. Click **Yes**.

The page is now linked. Any changes made to the original page will be reflected on the linked page as well, and vice versa.