To select all the objects in a rectangular area

With the normal tool  to drag a marquee over the objects you want to select, until all corners of all objects are within marquee.

To select nonadjacent objects

With the normal tool select an object and then press SHIFT as you click additional objects. Clicking selected objects deselects them.

To add more objects to the selection

Press SHIFT as you use the normal tool to drag a marquee over additional objects. Dragging over selected objects deselects them.

To select all objects belonging to the same article layout (generated from an object library)

There are several methods:

•Click the middle button of the mouse, to select the entire article layout or the logical group.

•While nothing is selected on page, press and hold SHIFT and then with ,click any object created from an object library or by Head and body tool, or any logical group, to select all the members of that layout. Available in version 1.5 or newer.

•Right-click any of the objects in an article layout, point to Logical Groups, and then click Select Group.

Notes

•It is not possible to select at once objects placed on different layers.

•To deselect all, click on the empty space on page, or press Z.

•When you use mouse to select more objects on a page by dragging a marquee, all the objects inside the marquee will be selected. In such selection, it is not always easy to understand which object is selected as first. However, the order of objects is rather important, because Fred4 determines the type of the entire selection based on the first selected object, thus displayed context menus related to that object. Please be aware that in multi-selection, the first object is determined by the lowest creation number, therefore, an object which is created before other objects is considered to be "first" in respect of other objects, even if its position is less important, or it is right in the middle of other objects.