# Can Category Moderators move topics between categories?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-category-moderators-move-topics-between-categories/246056
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** category-moderators
**Created:** [February 5, 2021, 10:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-category-moderators-move-topics-between-categories/246056 "2021-02-05T22:02:20Z")
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### Author: ![Overgrow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/overgrow/32/478189_2.png) [@Overgrow](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Overgrow)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2021, 10:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-category-moderators-move-topics-between-categories/246056/1 "2021-02-05T22:02:20Z")

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Does a category moderator have the privilege to move topic to another category? Does he need to be a category moderator of both categories (source and target category)?

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### Author: ![JimPas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jimpas/32/148179_2.png) [@JimPas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JimPas)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2021, 5:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-category-moderators-move-topics-between-categories/246056/2 "2021-02-06T05:28:51Z")

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An easy way to find out is to go to the topic title and if there’s an edit pencil to the right of it as shown here,  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/1/614d9807c6a741db5ab024df8e0c3c68371cb1b1.png)

Click on the pencil and you should see something like this

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/9/49556590ffc3c5bd64d75457f2372308765ca6e9.png)

Click on the drop down arrow on the right and it will show you the list of categories.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/c/7c21ac692b26cf00499c6fa8ef9c7ffc07f186a4.png)

Either scroll down to whichever category you want, click on that and the new category appears in the box. Click the arrow to make it so and it will exit automatically. Click X to cancel.

If the edit pencil next to the topic title is not there, a category moderator cannot move the topic.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-category-moderators-move-topics-between-categories/246056/3 "2022-11-18T15:37:27Z")

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