Forgive me if this is a dumb question. So far, whenever I create something, using a collection to hold the final objects which comprise the “object”, if I make an instance of this in another collection, I cannot render it unless the render state for the main collection is set to active., consequently, I end up with both the “source” object and the instance in the view. The only way around this I can see is to move the items in the “work collection”, including the instance of the object, off where the original cannot be seen. That to me seems just daft, so I am hoping I’m just being thick and missing the bleeding obvious. 
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or is it indeed an issue with needing the source collection active?
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It looks like there were bugs during Outliner rework that is mentioned in Today’s Dev meeting.
But after an update to last commit, it looks like they are gone.
You should be able to manage a collection instance visibility in outliner.
What is relative to visibility in viewport should not be problematic.
For visibility at render, you need to use Set Exclude/Clear Exclude option that are only available by right click menu.
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Thanks for the info, it was the “Exclude” thing I was not doing. 
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