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outline also become selected. Hold down "CTRL" while dragging to include those objects
touching the selection rectangle in the selection.

The "UTILITIES > OPTIONS" (on page 626) dialog (General Tab) enables you to change the
default setting for marquee selection. So you can choose to have objects touching the
selection rectangle selected, without having to hold down "Ctrl" during the drag. In this
case, holding "Ctrl" down while dragging selects only the objects wholly inside the
rectangle.
Extend Selection

To select additional objects:

• "Shift + click" on them.
• Or "Shift + drag" the mouse pointer. This draws a selection rectangle and adds objects
within the rectangle to the selection.

Select under
Hold down "Alt" to select objects hidden by other objects. By "Alt + clicking" you can step
through several overlapping objects.
Select inside

You can select an object that’s inside a group or other container object by holding down
"Ctrl" while you click on it. This is called selecting inside. The object you click on will
always become selected, even if it’s deep down inside several levels of nested groups.
When you have such deep nesting of groups, sometimes you may want to select one of
the nested groups (a group inside another group). If you hold down the "Alt" and "Ctrl"
keys while you click you can do this easily. The first such click will select the top level
group (just as an unmodified click does). Click again and the next group down in the
hierarchy will be selected instead. Continue clicking to ‘drill down’ into the group structure
until the group you want becomes selected.

Note that some operations are not permitted with select inside. For example, you are not
permitted to delete the end object of a blend (because the blend would then be
meaningless).

Marquee selection does not work for select inside, because "Ctrl" is used to toggle the
two marquee selection modes.

Scribble Selection
In the Selector Tool, drag with "Alt" held down and instead of dragging a box, a freehand
line is draw. Every object that is touched by the line becomes selected. Hence you can
drag the mouse around the page, touching all the objects that you want to select. This
also works in conjunction "Shift" for extend selection (on page 125) and "Ctrl" for select
inside (on page 125).