Moving objects between layers or frames
You may want to move objects into a different layer or frame.
To move objects
between layers or frames
1. Select the objects (see Selecting objects).
2. From the Arrange menu, choose Move to Layer in Front or Move to Layer Behind (for a Drawing document) or Move to Next Frame or Move to Previous Frame (for an animation document).
To move objects
to a specific layer or frame
1. Select the object (see Selecting objects).
2. From the Edit menu, choose Cut.
3. From the Utilities menu, choose Layer Gallery (for a framed document) or Frame Gallery (for an animation document).
4. Click on the layer/frame to make it the current layer or frame.
5. Press CTRL+Shift+V to paste the object back in the same position in the layer/frame.
To move objects
to the current layer
The current layer is the layer where new objects are created
1. Select the objects (see Selecting objects).
2. From the Utilities menu, choose Layer Gallery.
3. To make a different layer the current layer, click its name in the Layer Gallery.
4. Click Move to move the selected objects to the current layer.
Tips
When you move objects backwards
and forwards between frames, the guides layer
is ignored and skipped.
You can move whole layers and frames.
See Reordering layers and
Reordering frames.
To move objects within their current
layer/frame, see Moving objects
backward and forwards.