I literally can't believe this hasn't been implemented yet. I found a half decent work around, but its not the best.
1. You copy the component to another document
2. Right-Click the asset and select "reveal component in "assets"
3. Right-click the component in the assets panel and select "make local component"
4. then click the Pencil/Edit State button in the component panel on the top left, this will generate the "master" component of the copied component.
5. copy this new master back over to your original document.
This works perfectly only one layer of component. If you have components inside of components, they will probably get a bit messed up. But it still might save you some time.
I literally can't believe this hasn't been implemented yet. I found a half decent work around, but its not the best.
1. You copy the component to another document
2. Right-Click the asset and select "reveal component in "assets"
3. Right-click the component in the assets panel and select "make local component"
4. then click the Pencil/Edit State button in the component panel on the top left, this will generate the "master" component of the copied component.
5. copy this new master back over to your original document.
This works perfectly only one layer of component. If you have components inside of components, they will probably get a bit messed up. But it still might save you some time.