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Note

There may be some variation in the use of the

Alt

key on

different operating systems. In general the

Alt

key on a

Windows computer functions as described above, but on a

Linux system it usually does not. If the

Alt

key on your system

does not operate as described above, use the

Tab

key method

described below.

To select an object that is covered by another object using the

keyboard, press

Tab

to cycle through the objects, stopping at the

object you wish to select. To cycle through the objects in reverse order,

press

Shift+Tab

. This may not be practical if you have a large number

of objects in your drawing.

When you click on the selected object, its outline

appears briefly through the objects on top of the

selected object.

In the illustration to the right, the square located

beneath the circle was selected in this way (the circle

was made transparent in order to see the square).

Arranging objects

In a complex drawing, you may have objects stacked up, one on top of

the other, with the result that a particular object is hidden by one or

more other objects above it. You can rearrange the stacking order of

objects (move an object to the front or to the back of the stack) by

selecting the object, clicking Modify > Arrange and selecting the

appropriate Bring Forward or Send Backward option, or by right-

clicking the object and selecting Arrange from the context menu, then

selecting from the list of Bring Forward or Send Backward options.

On the Drawing toolbar, the Arrange tear-off menu on the button

contains the above options. A keyboard shortcut is

Shift+Ctrl++

bring an object to the top, and

Shift+Ctrl+

− to send an object to the

bottom.

Draw also provides tools for aligning multiple objects; details are given

in the

Draw Guide

Selecting several objects

To select or deselect several objects one by one, press the

Shift

key

and click on the various objects to be selected or deselected. One click

on an object selects it; a second click deselects it.

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