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• "Tab" selects the next object towards the back.
• "Shift + Tab" selects the next object towards the front.

Front and back objects are described in "Object handling (on page 92)".

Marquee selection
To select multiple objects, press and hold down the mouse button. Dragging the mouse
draws a selection rectangle, and all objects wholly within the selection rectangle are
selected.

Some other drawing programs call this marquee selection.

If you have an object in the way which is preventing you from drawing a rectangle
because you end up moving the object, hold down "" while dragging out the selection
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, marquee
selection and right-click copy does not work for select inside.

Moving objects selected under or inside
If you need to move a selected object that’s either under others or inside a group, then
just dragging doesn’t work as it will select and drag a different object. To overcome this
hold "Ctrl + Alt" and start dragging. This will always drag the existing selected object. You
can let go of the keys once you’ve started dragging.