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How to duplicate documents in a SharePoint document library?

List Transfer enables you to quickly create a document copy using duplicate function within a browser, without any downloading documents to your computer. All you have to do is just select documents and click Duplicate command, and then the copies are created in the document library.

This article will demonstrate how to figure it out.

WHAT YOU'LL GET

Three documents have been duplicated from existing ones in the library.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

List Transfer

The sample data we use for this case

Create a library named as Product Brochures from the Document Library template in your SharePoint site with several documents and columns as following.

Duplicate documents in a SharePoint document library

Download the trial version of List Transfer, and install it to your SharePoint server.
Navigate to the Product Brochures library prepared above.
Select documents which you want to duplicate. Here we selected the three documents showing below (the AD Self Service Brochure, the Batch Check In Brochure and the Document Viewer Brochure).
Go to FILES tab, in the Copy & Move group, click Duplicate under Copy Documents menu.
Wait a few seconds, and then you will see that the three selected documents have been duplicated in the document library as following.

The name of duplicated documents contains the “– Copy” ending which means that they are copies of documents, besides that, the values of other columns for the duplicated documents are just the same as that in the original ones.