MACROMEDIA FIREWORKS 2-USING FIREWORKS Use Manual page 16

Toolbox
The Toolbox contains 35 tools, some of which are
contained in tool groups, as shown. To display a tool
group, click and hold any tool with a triangle in the
lower-right corner.
Press and hold a tool to reveal tool groups.
Click an alternate tool to choose it from the tool group.
Pressing letter keys switches quickly between tools.
Press the letter key shown in the following chart to
choose a tool.
Fireworks documents contain four types of objects–
vector objects, which are path based; image objects,
which are pixel-based; text; and web objects, which are
special objects used to define areas of interactivity or
image slicing.
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Use this tool To
Select and drag
objects.
Pointer
Select objects behind
other objects.
Select
Behind
Discard or add canvas
area.
Crop
Export a portion of a
document.
Export Area
Select an object within
a group or points on a
path.
Subselect
Select a rectangular
pixel area in image edit
mode.
Marquee
Select an elliptical pixel
area in image edit
mode.
Ellipse
Marquee
Select a freeform pixel
area in image edit
mode.
Lasso
Select a polygonal pixel
area in image edit
mode.
Polygon
Lasso
Activate by
pressing
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or
0 (zero)
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or
0 (zero)
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