How to copy a link "collection" (without objects it contain) to another scene

[seemon (Simon Chong)]

Hi there,
In 2.93 or later … do we have a easy way to “link” a “collection” to another scene.
Today I have to link objects into another scene, then manually create a “similar” collection name in this 2nd scene and put this objects into this “similar” collection.
It gets more confusing when I have to “link” 2nd scene collection/objects back to the main scene. Hope someone knows good technique around this …

I understood an old query on that in 2.8 but it seems to be very cumbersome with extra work. I was hoping by now Blender 2.9x has smarter way to handle this.

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