16.5 Unlinking and Relinking Clones
A clone’s link to its original is its main characteristic feature; that is, after all, why we use clones. This link facilitates a lot of tasks in complex designs—for example, you can use clones for identical buttons or bullets on a website mockup, with the ability to change all such elements at once by changing their common original. However, sometimes this link becomes an obstacle, and you want to edit your object independently of its former original. For this, you need to unlink the clone.
Select a clone and press 
(or select Edit ▸ Clone ▸ Unlink Clone). Visibly, nothing changes; but the clone ceases to be clone ...
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