Selecting and editing with more control

- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll take a look…at a handful of preference setting that'll allow you…to edit text and path outlines with more control…and, so, for example, let's start with the idea…of selecting through text.…So, notice, that there's no text…underneath my cursor right here…and yet, if I were to click, I would end up selecting…the text object but same goes for…up in this area right here.…That's gunna select the text object as well.…If I want to select the rectangle in the background…I'm gunna have to click somewhere either to the left…or to the right of that text and that's because,…by default, Illustrator is reading the entire area…theoretically covered by the descenders and the ascenders,…even if they aren't represented, at a specific location…such as right here.…

It gets even worse if you have a graphic object…that's covered by area type.…So let's say that I want to select this yellow,…slanted rectangle down here.…Well, I can't select through the text…the way things are set up right now.…Now, you do have the option of pressing…