Clone is on the Outline menu. Clone makes a dynamic copy of the selected headline. It is a way to place identical information in more than one place in an outline and maintain a connection between the clones. Whenever you make a change in one clone, MORE exactly duplicates the change in the companion clone(s). You can have as many clones of a single headline as you wish. Once you have made a clone, you can move it within your outline.
Cloning is very useful if you need to update information that appears in more than one place in your outline. In effect, you are creating a cross reference to another part of your outline. You can use cloning to turn your MORE outline into a network of cross-referenced information.
When you clone a headline, the leader characters of the original and clone become an ampersand (&) sign if you’re using leader character labels. If the headline also has an attached document, the leader character will be an outline ampersand (&) sign. If you’re not using leader character labels, you’ll see the clone structure symbol (as shown in the MORE II Reference manual), whether or not there is an attached document window.
While a headline can have any number of clones, there are important constraints to cloning:
• You cannot clone the Home headline
• You cannot move a clone of a headline underneath and to the right of another clone of the same headline. This rule prevents you from creating an “infinite loop” of clones. Such a loop would cause your Macintosh to repeat itself endlessly.
You can delete any cloned headline from an outline by using the Cut or Clear commands. Deleting a clone does not affect any of the other clones. (However, if you delete all but one clone, it will no longer have a clone structure symbol.) Using the Cut command places the deleted clone on the Clipboard. If you subsequently use the Paste command to put the clone back into the outline, it will no longer be a clone, just an ordinary copy. Use Clear if you do not want to change the current contents of the Clipboard.
