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With an object selected, press Shift as you use the selection tool to drag a marquee over
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other objects you want to select. Dragging over selected objects deselects them.
If you want to select specific objects nested inside groups or frames, use these same
techniques, but with the direct-selection tool
Using the selection bounding box
For any selected object, you can activate its bounding box, a rectangle that represents the
object's horizontal and vertical dimensions. The bounding box makes it possible to quickly
move, duplicate, and scale the object without having to use any other tool. For paths, the
bounding box makes it easy to work with an entire object without accidentally altering
the anchor points that determine its shape. When you select one or more objects with the
selection tool, you see a bounding box that indicates the size of each object. If you don't
see a bounding box when an object is selected, you may have selected the object using
the direct-selection tool.
Note: For more precise moving and scaling, and for other modifications such as rotation,
use the transformation tools and the Transform palette. (See
on page 271.)
To activate an object's bounding box:
With an object selected, click the selection tool .
To deactivate an object's bounding box:
With an object selected, click the direct-selection tool . The object remains selected.
You can use the selection tool keyboard shortcuts to activate or deactivate a
bounding box quickly. Press the V key to activate the bounding box, or press A to
deactivate. These shortcuts work only when a graphics object is selected.
Selecting all objects
You can use the Select All command to select all objects on a spread and its pasteboard.
The current tool affects how objects are selected by the Select All command:
If the selection tool is active, paths and frames are selected with their bounding boxes
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active.
If the direct-selection tool is active, paths and frames are selected with their anchor
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points active.
If any other tool is active, the last-used selection tool determines whether objects are
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selected with bounding boxes or anchor points active.
If you used the type tool
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flashing vertical line), choosing Edit > Select All selects all text in that text frame as well
as all text in any text frames threaded to it, but selects no other objects.
The Select All command won't select the following:
Objects positioned on locked or hidden layers.
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Objects on spreads and pasteboards other than the target spread, except when you've
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selected threaded text using the type tool.
Objects nested inside groups or frames. Only the parent object will be selected.
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