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007 Selecting through and into objects using cmd-click and Select Above/Below

007 Selecting through and into objects using cmd-click and Select Above/Below - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

007 Selecting through and into objects using cmd-click and Select Above/Below

David: In a complex layout, one of the most frustrating roadblocks is not being able to select something on your page. For example, I want to select this text frame, so I click on it but I don't select the frame at all. I select the graphic frame that's sitting on top of that text frame. This graphic frame is the one that has the map of California in it. So how do I select through that frame to get the text frame underneath? Simple. Just Command+Click on the Mac or Ctrl+Click on Windows. When I do that, I select through the object to the object underneath. InDesign is full of selection tricks like that and it really behooves you to learn a few of these if you're going to be working in InDesign very much. Here's another one. I want to select inside this group. I click on it once and I can see that it's a group because of the dashed line around it. Let me zoom in to 200% by pressing Command+2 or Ctrl+2 on Windows. See that dashed line? That's definitely a group that contains multiple…

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