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Lock and unlock elements

Lock and unlock elements - OmniGraffle Tutorial

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Lock and unlock elements

Locking objects in OmniGraffle is simple, but also very powerful. Let's take a look at how it works. Basically once any object is in a state where, it's either done, or you know you're not going to manipulate it for a while, you can select it and just hit the lock right here. As you can see the outline goes grey and all of the handles that would allow us to make adjustments are x-ed out. So you would use that if you know that this isn't moving or changing for a long time, or sometimes as you reach the end game in a document, you just select everything, Cmd+A, and lock all of it. We actually unlocked, because one of our selections was already locked. So now lock everything. And you see that nothing can move, everything I select now has a lock on it. And as I say, there's several reasons you would do this, if you're totally done or you're done with just part. Or, sometimes what I like, is if you've finished a part and you want to work on top of it and make sure you not going to be…

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