Rarely used selection tip
Brian, a frequent visitor to the CNEWS groups, wrote:
I can't remember ever seeing it mentioned in these newsgroups, but at www.coreldraw.com one of the Corel employees gave a very useful tip to those who work with "treat all objects as filled" turned on.
Say you have a matrix of squares on the page (6 x 6 squares).
You wish to marquee select the center 4 x 4 squares. You can quickly do so as follows:
Effectively, you are starting to draw your marquee, dragging it to where you need it, then finishing drawing your marquee. In the above example you could drag a marquee around the top left 4x4 squares of the matrix (giving you the correct sized marquee to begin with) and then press the right mouse button (still holding the left mouse button down) to slide the marquee over the centre 4x4 squares and then release the right mouse button before releasing the left mouse button.
I hope this helps someone; it has been useful to me at times.
Best regards, Brian
To show what Brian means, I made a video for you:
I can't remember ever seeing it mentioned in these newsgroups, but at www.coreldraw.com one of the Corel employees gave a very useful tip to those who work with "treat all objects as filled" turned on.
Say you have a matrix of squares on the page (6 x 6 squares).
You wish to marquee select the center 4 x 4 squares. You can quickly do so as follows:
- outside of all squares, start to drag out a marquee (selecting nothing at this stage)
- while still holding the left mouse button, press the right mouse button at the same time
- drag the marquee where you want it, say just top-left of the left uppermost square you wish to select
- let go of the right mouse button while still holding the left mouse button and continue to drag your marquee as desired
- release the left mouse button
Effectively, you are starting to draw your marquee, dragging it to where you need it, then finishing drawing your marquee. In the above example you could drag a marquee around the top left 4x4 squares of the matrix (giving you the correct sized marquee to begin with) and then press the right mouse button (still holding the left mouse button down) to slide the marquee over the centre 4x4 squares and then release the right mouse button before releasing the left mouse button.
I hope this helps someone; it has been useful to me at times.
Best regards, Brian
To show what Brian means, I made a video for you:
posted by Jeff Harrison at
9:59 PM
1 Comments:
Thanks alot for that one. The other selection method I discovered at a past Corel gathering was using the Alt key. For example, if you hold down the Alt key and then click-n-drag on just a tiny piece (or pieces) of what you want to select. You don't have to marquis the entire selection, just "touch" the item(s) you want to select. This is an easy alternative to selecting many objects on a complex illustration and then having to deselect to get what you want. Hey, try and do that with an Adobe product.
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