How to copy & paste marker styles

As soon as you have more than one marker, you might want to apply one marker's style to another one (or multiple other ones) and avoid the hassle of styling every marker individually. Datawrapper locator maps make that possible. 

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Apply one marker's style to another

Let's assume we have two markers: One is styled ("Brandenburg gate" in the GIF below) and one is not ("another location"). To make the second marker match the first one, there are four simple steps:

1. Select the marker that has the style you want to apply to another marker. In our case, that's "Brandenburg gate." 
2. Click on copy style.
3. Select the marker with the style that you want to change. In our case, that's "another location."
4. Click on paste style.

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Apply one marker's style to multiple other markers

To apply one marker's style to multiple other markers, there are four simple steps again: 

1. Select the marker that has the style you want to apply to another marker. In our case, that's "Brandenburg gate." 
2. Click on copy style.
3. Select all the markers whose style you want to change. In our case, that's "another location" and "a third location."
   
   

   👉 To select multiple markers, hold the COMMAND key on a Mac or CTRL key (STRG in German) on a Windows/Linux while clicking on the markers in the marker list. Hold the SHIFT key to select the first and last marker of a row of markers that you want to select.

4. Click on "paste style."

As you can see, we can try to select the area markers in the map and click on "paste style," but their style still won't change. That's because we copied the style from a point marker, not an area marker. We can only apply styles to new markers if they're of the same type (point, line, area) as the original marker.