Moving Objects; Grouping And Ungrouping Objects - Smart Technologies SMART BOARD User Manual

A selection rectangle will emerge from the Selection Pointer.
3 Completely enclose the objects you want selected.
4 Release the mouse button or lift your finger from the SMART Board.
All objects within the selection rectangle, except those that have been previously
moved to the background, will appear individually selected.
Alternatively, use the Shift key and cursor to make multiple selections:
1 Select the first object by moving the cursor over the object until the pointer cursor
becomes a four-arrow pointer cursor. Then press once.
The object will appear enclosed by a selection rectangle with eight resize handles.
2 Move the cursor to the next object you want selected until the cursor becomes a four-
arrow pointer cursor. Then hold the Shift key and press once.
Both the first and subsequently selected objects will appear enclosed by individual
selection rectangles.
To select all objects on the current page:
Choose Select All from the Edit menu.
All objects on the page will appear enclosed in individual selection rectangles.

Moving Objects

You may need to occasionally rearrange objects on a page to suit a developing train of
thought. You can also move objects from the current page onto any other page in the file by
dragging them onto a thumbnail page in the Side Sorter. If the number of objects on the
Board or current page becomes distracting, you can stack them by moving them on top of
one another. For information on rearranging the objects you've stacked, see Rearranging
Stacked Objects on page 45.
To move a single object or several objects:
1 Select the object(s) to be moved as described above.
2 Press, hold and drag to any other position on the page or onto a thumbnail page in the
Side Sorter.
If you select several objects, moving any one of them will cause the entire group to
move as a single unit.

Grouping and Ungrouping Objects

You may want to group several Notebook objects into a single graphical object. When you
select one object in such an object group, the entire group is automatically selected. The
object group can then be moved, edited and sized as a single object.
When selected, the original multiple selection boxes within the group will be replaced by a
single selection box. When you cut or copy a single grouped selection, the grouping is
retained in the pasted result. In addition, the grouping is preserved across any number of file
saves.
The grouping feature is especially useful if you want to move a group of objects without
disturbing their relative positions. It's also faster than moving the objects individually.
However, once you've created a group from a collection of objects, they can no longer be
edited, resized or moved individually until you reverse the process, and return them to their
separate status by ungrouping them.
SMART Board User's Guide
Note
The Side Sorter is the
vertical strip of
Notebook thumbnail
pages to the right of
the current page. See
page 62 for more
information.
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