Select / Deselect

Select and deselect objects, pages and page sets

Selecting/Deselecting Objects

You can select more than one object at the same time.

Note: You cannot select a story in the Plan layout window.

  1. To select a single object, click on the object.

  2. To select more than one object, do one of the following:

    • Shift-click on each additional object.

  3. To select all the objects on selected pages, select a page or pages and do one of the following:

    • Choose Edit -> Select All.

    • Press Ctrl-A (Mac OS & Windows).

  4. To select all the ads in an advertising Classification (or Position for ROP), select an ad in that classification and do one of the following:

    • Choose Edit -> Select Class.

    • Press Ctrl+Shift-C (Mac OS & Windows).

  5. To select all the liner ads on selected pages, select the pages and choose Edit -> Select All Liners. The selected objects appear in gray instead of their normal color coding.

  6. To deselect all objects, do one of the following:

    • Click anywhere outside any of the selected objects.

    • Choose Edit -> Deselect All.

Selecting/Deselecting Pages

You can select more than one page at the same time.

  1. To select a page, do one of the following:

    • Click on its margin or any unused portion of it.

  2. To select an additional page, do one of the following:

    • Shift-click on its margin or any unused portion of it.

  3. To select several pages:

    • Select the first page in the group

    • Alt-Shift-click the last page in the group (Opt-Shift-Click on Mac)

  4. To deselect a page, shift-click on it.

  5. To deselect all but one page, click on the page you want to select.

Selecting/Deselecting Page Sets

  1. To select all pages in a page set, do one of the following:

    • Double-click on the Page Set Name bar above any page in the page set.

    • Select a page in the page set and choose Edit -> Select Page Set.

    • Select a page in the page set and press Ctrl+Shift-A (Mac OS & Windows).

  2. To select all pages in an additional page set, double-click on the Page Set Name bar above the page set.

  3. To select all the pages in a plan, do one of the following:

    • Choose Edit -> Select All Pages.

    • Press Ctrl-G (Mac OS & Windows). The borders of the selected pages turn red.

  4. To deselect a page set, shift-double-click on the Page Set Name bar above the page set.

  5. To deselect all pages, do one of the following:

    • Click in the layout outside any pages.

    • Choose Edit -> Deselect All.

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