October 4th, 2006
Moving and Adding Documents Via Drag and Drop
Did you know that via drag and drop you can not only "move" documents, you can also "add" documents to a folder? That means instead of just changing from their current location (such as your Inbox) to the new folder, they also stay in their current location as well. It is called "add" instead of "copy", because copy sounds like it is creating an additional document, which it is not as I explain here.
In the animation below you can see that my inbox starts with four documents. Two of them are moved to a new folder via drag and drop. After the drop, the two documents are no longer displayed in the Inbox. Also notice how the folders expand when I hover over them.
This time I will do the same thing, but before I drop the documents, I press the CTRL key on my keyboard (ALT key on Macintosh). The mouse cursor changes, adding a "+" sign, indicating that the documents are being "added" not moved. Notice after the drop the two documents are in the new folder, but they also remain in the Inbox.
This is extremely useful when you want to place a document in more than one folder.
