Placing symbol instancesYou place instances of symbols in your document in one of two ways: using the Symbols palette or a symbol library 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 Using the symbolism tools.) ![]() Artwork with symbol instances Symbol instances placed using the Symbols palette or a symbol library are exact replicas of the original. When selected in the artboard, symbol instances have a bounding box around them, similar to grouped artwork. To place an individual symbol instance:
To duplicate a symbol instance:
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