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title: Copying and moving documents, creating linked documents
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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 document_ operations with documents quickly by dragging and dropping in the content tree.

## Copying and moving documents, creating linked documents 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 documen**t - hold CTRL+SHIFT while performing drag and drop
3. In the **Content tree**, select the document that you want to move.

   ![](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/copying-and-moving-documents-creating-linked-documents/selecting_document.png)
4. Move the mouse to the target location while still holding down the mouse button.

   ![](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/copying-and-moving-documents-creating-linked-documents/moving_document.png)
5. If you drag the document a bit to the right, the document is placed under the document above it.

   ![](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/copying-and-moving-documents-creating-linked-documents/moving_document_child.png)
6. Release the mouse button.

The system moves the document to the chosen location.

## Copying and moving documents, creating linked documents on the Live site

1. Log on to the live site.
2. Click on **Edit page** in the top left corner.
3. Click on **Browse**. The **Document listing** dialog box opens.
4. Select the documents for which you want to perform the **Copy, Move** or **Link** action.

   ![](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/copying-and-moving-documents-creating-linked-documents/copying_document_livesite.png)
5. In the bottom drop-down list, select the action that you want to perform.
6. Click on **OK**. A new dialog box opens.
7. In the left content tree, navigate to the destination.
8. (Optional) If the page has children, select the target children in the right content tree.
9. (Optional) Turn the **Copy document permissions** check-box on.

   ![](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/copying-and-moving-documents-creating-linked-documents/copying_document_livesite2.png)
10. Click on **Copy**, **Move** or **Link**.