1. Open the document you want to duplicate layers from.
2. Create a new document you want the duplicated layers to be placed in or open a current document.
3. In the Layers panel, select the layer(s) and/or group(s) you want to copy.
4. Right click what you selected in the Layers panel and choose Duplicate.
5. In the popup there is a "Destination" section. In the dropdown pick the name of the document you created/opened in step 2 and click OK.
6. Done! If you checkout the new file you made/opened earlier in step 2 you will see your layers/groups have been duplicated to there.
7. Alternatively, you don't have to create the new document first, in the "Destinations" dropdown the bottom option is "New" which means it will create a new document for you. You just have to fill in the "Name" field which is the title for the new document.

What is the goal? I use a free application called MyPhoneExplorer (MPE) to sync Outlook 2010 x32 with my phone. I sync my contacts, calendar, notes, tasks and custom directories. It works really well but you have to connect the phone and then manually load MyPhoneExplorer. That's means loading it from the start menu and then clicking the multi-sync option. How much effort is that?! Ok, not much but it's more than I can be bothered doing each time. The goal is to get MPE to load automatically when the phone is connected, do an automatic multi-sync and then close MPE. Took me like an hour to work it out and searching the depths of the interweb it seems nobody else on the planet has posted how to do this so I felt it would be a nice thing to share.

• Expand the top ribbon bar if it is not already open and choose the "View" tab.
• Click on the "Navigation Pane" option and then choose the "Favorites" item.
• That's it. That menu option acts as a toggle to turn it on and off.

See, I said it was easy

var file_name:String = " #DOG!"£$%^&*()_+{}~@:?><|¬\`-=[]#';/.,";

// Remove chars not allowed in Windows filename \ / : * ? " < > |
file_name = file_name.replace(/[~\\\/:\*\?"<>\|]/g, "");

// Trim leading and trailing whitespace.
file_name = file_name.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/gs, "");

// traces #DOG!£$%^&()_+{}@¬`-=[]#';.,
trace(file_name);

Although it looks like crap that is still a valid file name. So then my system automatically appends the custom file extension that I'm using. I'm clearly not a regexp wizard but the above seems to work for me. Could probably combine the two but I'm not fussed for now. I got the trim regexp from the comments in this post.

Another option would of been to use the TextFields restrict property which will prevent them from typing or pasting in any of the illegal characters. In hindsite I'll probably switch to using that as it will be less confusing for the user:

this.my_textfield.restrict = "^\\\\/:*?\"<>|";

I should point out that I haven't made any of these from scratch, some are presented in their entirety whilst others I've chopped down to make more suitable for their new purpose. If anyone has a problem with me sharing them then let me know and I can take down the offending tune.