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title: Manage existing Smart Documents in your repository
description: "### Duplicate Smart Documents To duplicate a Smart Document, select the desired template from your drive and click the **Duplicate** button in the top menu. This action creates an exact copy of the selected Smart Document, preserving its content and…"
url: "https://despapeliza.io/docs/manage-existing-smart-documents-in-your-repository/"
updated: "2026-10-28"
category: Legale.io in details / 11. Smart document
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# Manage existing Smart Documents in your repository

### Duplicate Smart Documents

To duplicate a Smart Document, select the desired template from your drive and click the **Duplicate** button in the top menu. This action creates an exact copy of the selected Smart Document, preserving its content and fields.

![](https://despapeliza.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/bdmig-092b26000a226cec3a7c.jpg)

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### **Confirming document duplication**

After using the duplicate option, the platform immediately generates an identical copy of the selected Smart Document, placing it next to the original for quick verification and further actions.

![](https://despapeliza.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/bdmig-d8a0963ac61a28b3f7e2.jpg)

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### **Transferring Smart Documents**

Selecting a Smart Document and clicking the **Transfer** button allows ownership of the document to be reassigned to another user.

![](https://despapeliza.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/bdmig-e069e9e603c7bb019f06.jpg)

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### **Confirming document transfer**

To finalize the transfer, select the recipient's user from the dropdown menu and click the green “Submit” button, which reassigns ownership of the selected Smart Document to the chosen user.

![](https://despapeliza.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/bdmig-7481b6494398b95bb747.jpg)

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### **Transfer confirmation**

The document now appears under the account of the new user, confirming the successful ownership transfer, with the user's name shown in the top-right corner and the transferred Smart Document listed in their drive.

![](https://despapeliza.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/bdmig-bc9a1e2f17577eca88c3.jpg)

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### **Moving a Smart Document**

To relocate a Smart Document to a different folder, select the document and click the **Move to** button located in the top toolbar, represented by a folder icon with an arrow.

![](https://despapeliza.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/bdmig-8790bc0af4dbe3af82f4.jpg)

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### **Confirming folder selection**

Once the destination folder is chosen from the dropdown menu, clicking the green “Submit” button completes the action, moving the selected Smart Document to the specified folder.

![](https://despapeliza.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/bdmig-f7a53d304218dfc4e141.jpg)

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### **Verifying folder relocation**

The Smart Document now appears within the selected destination folder “Folder example”, confirming that the move operation was successfully executed.

![](https://despapeliza.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/bdmig-956c0c4839ebd60a44ca.jpg)

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### **Deleting a Smart Document**

To remove a Smart Document from the drive, simply select it and click the **Delete** button represented by a trash bin icon; this action permanently removes the document from your list.

![](https://despapeliza.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/bdmig-95d4133d33b5144dd76d.jpg)

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### **Deletion confirmation**

Once a Smart Document is deleted, it is permanently removed from the list and no longer appears in the document overview, confirming successful deletion.

![](https://despapeliza.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/bdmig-d0334aa23810c6ee85fb.jpg)