<div dir="auto">Hi, <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Select the features you want. In the layers panel, right-click the layer and in the context menu select Export > Save Selected Features. A dialog appears which allows you to select the output format and other options. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Alternatively, you can also use the Extract by Expressing tool from the processing toolbox. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://docs.qgis.org/3.40/en/docs/user_manual/processing_algs/qgis/vectorselection.html#extract-by-expression">https://docs.qgis.org/3.40/en/docs/user_manual/processing_algs/qgis/vectorselection.html#extract-by-expression</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Just select the "selected features only" option and use 1 ( which represent true) in the expression. The advantages of this approach is that, if you want, you can create the new layer as a temporary layer. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best regards,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Alexandre Neto</div><div dir="auto"><a href="http://www.aneto.pt">www.aneto.pt</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">A sábado, 20/12/2025, 23:15, Garth Fletcher via QGIS-User <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>> escreveu:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Select (highlight in Layers) the layer from which you want to copy <br>
features,<br>
use selection tool to select states,<br>
Edit > Copy,<br>
then select (highlight in Layers the target layer<br>
click on pencil ("Toggle Editing") to make it editable,<br>
then Edit > Paste<br>
<br>
Note: if you want to Copy into a layer that doesn't yet exist<br>
then first use Layer > Create Layer to create a new layer in Layers.<br>
Of course it needs to be of the same type as the layer your want to <br>
copy from...<br>
Then proceed as above.<br>
<br>
Garth Fletcher<br>
<br>
On 12/20/25 Mike Breiding <<a href="mailto:epicroadtrips@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">epicroadtrips@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Greetings,<br>
> When I select several states at once from a US layer, how do I save<br>
> those selections to a new layer?<br>
<br>
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