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USING ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS4
Selecting and arranging objects
Exit isolation mode
❖ Do one of the following:
• Press Esc.
• Click the Exit Isolation Mode button one or more times (if you’ve isolated a sublayer, one click takes you
back a level, two clicks exits isolation mode).
• Click anywhere in the isolation mode bar.
• Click the Exit Isolation Mode button in the Control panel.
• Using the Selection tool, double-click outside of the isolated group.
• Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) and choose Exit Isolation Mode.
Select objects using the Layers panel
1 In the Layers panel, locate the object you want to select. You may have to click a toggle arrow to expand a layer or
group, or scroll up or down in the panel to locate the object.
2 Do any of the following:
• To select individual objects, click in the object’s selection column (between the target button and the scroll bar).
Shift-click to add or to remove objects from the selection.
• To select all artwork in a layer or group, click in the layer’s or group’s selection column.
• To select all artwork in a layer based on the currently selected artwork, choose Select > Object > All On Same
Layers.
Selection color boxes appear next to each selected item in the panel.
For a video on working with layers, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0041.
See also
“Layers panel overview” on page 215
Select objects with the Selection tool
1 Select the Selection tool .
2 Do either of the following:
• Click an object.
• Drag a marquee around part or all of one or more objects.
3 To add or remove objects from the selection, hold down Shift and click or drag around the objects you want to add
or remove.
Dragging over objects to select them
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