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Selecting objects
To select a single object, click on any visible part of the object.
Change object selection
Once an object is selected, you can use the following keys to change the selection:
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End selects the back object.
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Home selects the front object.
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"Tab" selects the next object towards the back.
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"Shift + Tab" selects the next object towards the front.
Front and back objects are described in "Object handling
".
Marquee selection
To select multiple objects, press and hold down the mouse button. Dragging the mouse draws a
selection rectangle, and all objects wholly within the selection rectangle are selected.
Some other drawing programs call this marquee selection.
If you have an object in the way which is preventing you from drawing a rectangle because you end up
moving the object, hold down "
?" while dragging out the selection rectangle.
Extend Selection
To select additional objects:
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"Shift + click" on them.
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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
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, marquee selection and
right-click copy does not work for select inside.
Moving objects selected under or inside
If you need to move a selected object that's either under others or inside a group, then just dragging
doesn't work as it will select and drag a different object. To overcome this hold "Ctrl + Alt" and start
dragging. This will always drag the existing selected object. You can let go of the keys once you've
started dragging.
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