.. _Edit Menu:

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Edit Menu
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The edit menu contains useful editing tools like cut, copy and paste along with a selection of more advanced capabilities.

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Menu Items                   Action
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Undo                         | Reverts your changes, newest to oldest
Redo                         | Reverts your most recent change
Select                       | Show a range of selection options
Instance                     | Creates a memory/performance friendly copy of a prim hierarchy
Duplicate                    | Make a copy of the referenced prim, without layer changes,
                             | to current selected layer
Duplicate All Layers         | Make a copy of the referenced prim, with all layer changes,
                             | to their own layer
Duplicate Collapsed          | Combine changes from all layers, disconnect the reference
                             | relationship and make a new object on current selected layer
Parent                       | Creates an Xform and nests selected prims under that XForm.
Unparent                     | Removes nesting of selected prim.
Group                        | Puts all selected prims into a group container
Toggle Visibility            | Hides / Shows selected items in the viewport
Delete                       | Delete the prim that is currently selected in the stage
Rename                       | Rename the currently selected prim
Focus                        | Positions the viewport, centered on the selected mesh
Hide Unselected              | Hides all prims that are not selected
Unhide All                   | Returns all hidden prims to visible in your scene  
Toggle Visualization Mode    | Toggles between standard visualization mode and de-clutter visualization mode
Capture Screenshot           | Takes a screen capture
Preferences                  | Opens the :ref:`Preference Panel`
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