- [Instructor] As you start creating multiple screens,
what you end up doing are duplicating a bunch of elements.
So these are all just different text fields,
and these are just separate graphics.
Well, really what I want to do is I'm going to
link them all together, and I want to have one symbol
that controls all of these search buttons
and all of these menu items, right?
So to do that, I'm going to open up the Assets panel
right down here, this is where these symbols will be.
So I can just kind of zoom in on any one of these,
zoom in on the home page.
We will take this magnifying glass.
With it selected, clicking right there,
I've added that symbol, and that's what I want to do
for all of these elements, just adding them exactly
as I'd expect to add them.
I'd really want to do this for every single thing,
adding that in, adding this one in,
and even for this logo, let's add that as well.
So I've done it for all of these elements,
kind of coming down here, I'd probably want to do it
for this logo too, adding that, just differentiating
between those two, one's the large one, one's the small one.
And now I can just go ahead and do that,
and really replace any one of these.
Look how these have changed, though, by the way.
As I select them, they've turned green, okay?
So we can see something that's not a symbol is blue.
So I can delete this one and I can grab
this magnifying glass and put it right here, okay?
Here's an even easier way, because I want to delete
all of these elements, and I want to put the navigation,
and I'll even delete that element, in the same place.
So by going to this home screen right here,
I'm going to select all of those elements.
I'm going to select the magnifying glass.
These are all of the symbols, okay,
but selecting them all just like that.
I have them all selected, I'm going to copy them,
and then I'm going to go to my home alt page
'cause that's where I want them to be.
So this is the page that I'm now on.
Watch as I do Paste, it's going to paste them all into place.
Okay, so that works out really fantastic
once you have it all set up, and I'd want to do that,
again, for these other pages, just replacing
these graphics with the actual symbols that I'm using
by deleting them all and bringing in the symbols
where the graphics ones were.
Okay, so you can see I have all of the elements
are now symbols, all the ones that are repeated.
Up here even, I do want to point out that
currently if you use a symbol, you can't resize it.
So that's the current state, that could change tomorrow
for all I know, but you can see how this is laid out.
These are all symbols, I'm just selecting each one,
I see that it's green, that is great,
because again, I can make sure that is a symbol
and even as I start to change any one of these elements
like this magnifying glass, if I happen to maybe
make this highlight come from the other side,
notice how it changes off to the side over here.
You can see how it changes accordingly.
It's going to change for every single one.
That's how that works.
Now, when it comes to text, I want to show you
right down here, if I want to change this
from hikers to climbers, as I change that,
that can be an individual element that I've changed
or what I can do is if I right-click,
I can update all symbols.
'cause I want it to say climbers everywhere,
you can see it says climbers everywhere now.
In fact, I'll just double-click and I'll change it back,
hikers, so again, you can have it separate as a one-off
of you can update all symbols just like that.
In fact, if you decide you want to maybe break it apart,
you can ungroup this symbol, so it's basically
going to break it apart and no longer be a symbol at all
if you want to do that.
So really, your options are limitless
when it comes to symbols, and they get to be invaluable
as you start to create many, many screens like I have here.