# Copying a Template into Your Animation

You can drag a template from the Library to the Exposure Sheet or Timeline window to add its contents to your animation.

Toon Boom Studio displays the contents in the View windows, where you can edit them, and adds the contents to your animation folder.

Copying templates into your animation will increase the file size of your movies. You can link templates to your animation to keep the file size of your animation small.

To copy a template into your animation:

1. Select the template you want to use from the Library window.

2. Drag the template to the Timeline or Exposure Sheet window. The mouse pointer displays a plus (+) sign when it is in a position where you can add it.

- If your template contains only one type of content (say bitmaps), you can add it to an existing bitmap element.
- If your template contains multiple elements, you will not be able to add it to an existing element if that element is not compatible with the template. You must drag templates that contain multiple elements just outside an element column or row to add it to the animation.

When you copy templates that have multiple elements to the Exposure Sheet, you will not see those elements that can’t be displayed in the Drawing View, like pegs and cameras. However, you will be able to see them when you switch to the Sceneplanning view windows.

See Also
Linking Templates to Media Elements
The Library Window
Creating Templates