Martin Audio MLA User Manual page 238

MLA System
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If you need to repeat this action several times you can select the Marquee tool from the Palette menu which changes the mouse
cursor to a cross and enables box-drawing mode. Click on the Select icon in the Palette to return to normal select mode.
Secondly you can click to select an element then press and hold either Ctrl or Shift and click on all other elements you wish to
select. Note that you can use a combination of selection modes if necessary; use the box-drawing method initially then Ctrl or
Shift click to add additional elements to the selection.
Deselecting an element from a multiple selection must be done with Ctrl + click. With a multiple selection there is always one
primary element, by default the last one added to the selection. This will have the familiar black squares in the corners; all other
selected items will have white squares. You can change the primary element by a further Shift + Click on an object. Deselecting
all objects is done in the same way as a single item by clicking anywhere on the work surface.
The icons on the tool bar offer quick and easy alignment of multiple objects, there are five tools available;-
The first aligns objects horizontally, here is a before and after of four arrays that have been selected;-
In the left hand shot the arrays have been positioned roughly in a line and all selected the right hand shot shows them all neatly
lined up in a horizontal line.
The second allows alignment in the vertical;-
Again the arrays are not very well aligned but a simple click of the vertical alignment button and they are perfectly in line.
The fourth button will swap the horizontal position of all selected elements;-
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