: Copy-and-paste Sketch artboard into different Sketch document without overwriting symbols in different artboards Background I have a Sketch file within which there are multiple artboards. Each artboard

@Dunderdale640

I haven't actually tried these, but there's a couple of plugins that might help:

Merge duplicate symbols sketch plugin lets you merge all symbols with the same name, choosing which one to keep and replacing all instances with that one.

Remove duplicate styles plugin seems to do the same for text styles, though I don't know if it actually lets you choose which one to pick.

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@Shakeerah625

There's no perfect solution for this but my guess is the easiest way is to do this:


Duplicate artboard in original file
Detach all elements from symbol
Copy/paste artboard into new file
Change elements as needed


I assume you'll be fiddling with the colors in some screens, not a whole bunch of them. If you need to repeat the same change multiple times you could always create another symbol under a different name. This way you would have to update the file as you change the original but since it's just for color prototyping I wouldn't worry too much about small changes.

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@Sherry646

It's not perfect, but you could try to export the artboards as PDF and reimport them in the other document. You would lose the artboards, but keep all the graphics. A little bit of fiddling will fix that of course.

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