Copy a figure layout

Reuse an existing layout with strips from a new experiment.

Before you startPrepare a finished figure and save the strips for your new experiment.

Illustrated guide

01Copy the existing layout

Right-click the existing figure in the list, or open its menu, and choose Duplicate layout (without strips). The copy keeps labels and formatting while leaving strip positions empty.

Copy the existing layout

02Change the name and conditions

Change the figure name above the canvas and edit the condition cells for this experiment’s groups, doses or times. Here the copy becomes Figure 2 and its last three columns are updated.

Change the name and conditions

03Add the new experiment’s strips

Expand the original in the strip library and select a strip. When ready to place, click an empty strip row. Add the reference in the same way and check sources and lane order.

Add the new experiment’s strips

04Check the preview and save

Open Export preview, check protein names, conditions and strip positions, then choose a format and save. Use Back up project to retain an editable .wbfig package.

Check the preview and save

Video guide

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Narrated steps with English captions. Screenshot builds: 2.0.9. This page uses simulated examples. Some screenshots show the Chinese interface.