Changes are not occurring copied item

I think I have one of my properties messed up on my installation of Sketchup. When I make a cylinder and copy it, Changes to the cylinder do not occur on the copied item. It worked yesterday when I was following a tutorial. Today it’s like I forgot everything. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
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make components.

Raw geometry, when duplicated, won’t share the changes.
Nor will the groups, each group retain its autonomy

Components however will change as they are “synchronised clones”

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You have to make the object into a component to keep the connection between it and its copies.

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I am slowly learning the subtleties of this. When I make it a component, then copy, then actually work on the component, things work better. Thank you.