# 2.2 Copying Widgets (Panels)

## What

If we have the power to create our own dashboards, then surely we must be able to add content to them...

## When/Why

We are going to copy a widget (referred to as a panel in Grafana) whenever one already exists and we can leverage it without doing any extra work. For instance, watch below, as we "steal" content from various pre-existing dashboards for our own custom dashboard.

## How

Taking pre-existing content from other dashboards is as easy a copy and paste (rinse and repeat):

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<table id="bkmrk-if-you-find-that-you"><tbody><tr><td>If you find that your copied panel is blank, take a look at resolving that in this article: [Fixing Blank Copied Panel](https://kb.filewave.com/books/dashboard-grafana/page/221-copied-panel-is-blank "2.2.1 Copied Panel is Blank")

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