MACROMEDIA FIREWORKS MX 2004-USING FIREWORKS Use Manual page 18

Saving and restoring marquee selections
You can save the size, shape, and location of a selection to reapply later.
To save a marquee selection:
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Choose Select > Save Bitmap Selection.
To restore a marquee selection:
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Choose Select > Restore Bitmap Selection.
Note: You can save only one selection at a time.
Creating and moving a floating pixel selection
When you drag a marquee to a new location, the marquee itself moves. If you want to move, edit,
cut, or copy a selection of pixels, you must first make the pixels a floating selection.
To create a floating pixel selection:
Make a pixel selection with a bitmap selection tool.
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Do one of the following:
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Hold down Control (Windows) or Command (Macintosh) and drag the selection using any
tool from the Bitmap section of the Tools panel.
Choose the Pointer tool and drag the selection.
To move a floating selection, do one of the following:
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Drag the floating selection with the Pointer tool or any bitmap selection tool.
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If a nonselection bitmap tool is active, hold down Control (Windows) or Command
(Macintosh) and drag the floating selection.
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Use the arrow keys or Shift+arrow keys.
When you deselect the floating pixel selection or choose any vector or web tool, the floating
selection becomes part of the current bitmap object.
Inserting a new bitmap by cutting or copying
You can insert a new bitmap based on a pixel selection into the current layer of a document by
cutting or copying the selected pixels.
To insert a new bitmap by cutting and pasting a pixel selection:
Select an area of pixels using a pixel selection tool.
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Choose Edit > Insert > Bitmap via Cut.
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A new bitmap object based on the pixel selection is created in the current layer, and the
selected pixels are removed from the original bitmap object. In the Layers panel, a thumbnail
of the new bitmap appears in the current layer, above the object from which it was cut.
18 Chapter 1: Selecting and Transforming Objects