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the way selection works in other applications, whereby the objects touching the
rectangle outline also become selected. Hold down "
CTRL" while dragging to include
those objects touching the selection rectangle in the selection.
The "
UTILITIES -> OPTIONS" (on page 346) dialog (General Tab) enables you to
change the default setting for marquee selection. So you can choose to have objects
touching the selection rectangle selected, without having to hold down "Ctrl" during
the drag. In this case, holding "Ctrl" down while dragging selects only the objects
wholly inside the rectangle.
Extend Selection
To select additional objects:
• "Shift + click" on them.
• Or "Shift + drag" the mouse pointer. This draws a selection rectangle and adds
objects within the rectangle to the selection.
Select under
Hold down "Alt" to select objects hidden by other objects. By "Alt + clicking" you can
step through several overlapping objects.
Select inside
Groups and blends are described later. Text stories are described in "Text handling
(on page 178)". Molds are described in "Distorting objects (on page 143)".
You can select an object that’s inside a group or other container object by holding
down "Ctrl" while you click on it. This is called selecting inside. The object you click on
will always become selected, even if it’s deep down inside several levels of nested
groups. When you have such deep nesting of groups, sometimes you may want to
select one of the nested groups (a group inside another group). If you hold down the
"Alt" and "Ctrl" keys while you click you can do this easily. The first such click will
select the top level group (just as an unmodified click does). Click again and the next
group down in the hierarchy will be selected instead. Continue clicking to ‘drill down’
into the group structure until the group you want becomes selected.
Note that some operations are not permitted with select inside. For example, you are
not permitted to delete the end object of a blend (because the blend would then be
meaningless).
Marquee selection does not work for select inside, because "Ctrl" is used to toggle the
two marquee selection modes.
Scribble Selection
In the Selector Tool, drag with "Alt" held down and instead of dragging a box, a
freehand line is draw. Every object that is touched by the line becomes selected.
Hence you can drag the mouse around the page, touching all the objects that you