Adobe illustrator 10 Manuale Utente

In the Symbols palette, do one of the following:

Drag a symbol to the New Symbol button.

Select a symbol, and choose Duplicate Symbol from the Symbols palette menu.

You place instances of symbols in your document in one of two ways: using the Symbols 
palette to place individual instances of a symbol, or using the symbol sprayer tool to 
create multiple symbol instances as a set. When you use the symbol sprayer, all of the 
symbols that appear from each spray become one instance set that you manipulate and 
edit as a whole. (See 

Symbol instances placed using the Symbols palette are exact replicas of the original. 
When selected in the artboard, symbol instances have a bounding box around them, 
similar to grouped artwork.

1 Select a symbol from the palette.

2 Do one of the following:

Click the Place Symbol Instance button   in the Symbols palette to place the instance in 

the center of the artboard.

Drag the symbol to the artboard where you want it to appear.

Choose Place Symbol Instance from the Symbols palette menu.

1 Select the instance on the artboard.

2 Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) the symbol instance to another location 
on the artboard.

You can easily delete the symbol from the palette. You can also choose to delete or expand 
any instances of the symbol.

1 In the Symbols palette, do one of the following:

Select a symbol and click the Delete Symbol button  .

Drag a symbol icon to the Delete Symbol button.

Select a symbol and choose Delete Symbol from the Symbols palette menu.

2 To avoid deleting existing symbol instances (if any were created), select Expand 
Instances in the message that appears.

Select a symbol in the Symbols palette, and then choose Select All Instances in the 
palette menu.