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Cannot duplicate Sway

Anonymous
2018-06-19T02:34:28+00:00

Hi,

I am a teacher trying to get out the school newsletter. In the past i have duplicated my sway to start a new one each week. This week it says 'There was an error creating a copy of this sway'. Why can't I duplicate? This is very frustrating.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-06-19T13:41:55+00:00

    Hi Luke,

    This is a known issue that can happen when many successive duplicates are chained together on the same Sway.  Have you ever considered using the template feature?  To do so, you would create a new Sway from scratch, put the basic content in it that you want in every week, then, from the … menu, choose Save as Template.  Then, each week, you'd just create a new Sway from that template which appears on your My Sways page.

    Regardless of this, in order to fix your current Sway, you will need to do the following:

    1. Open last week's Sway in one window
    2. Create a new Sway and open it in the other window
    3. In the original Sway, select all the cards at once
    4. Press Ctrl+c to copy
    5. In the new Sway, press Ctrl+v to paste
    6. You will need to copy in the title card pieces separately and set the style/layout separately

    Let me know if you need any assistance with this.

    Jason

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