Mark are and select ALL object in that area? 1

[krissymissy]

Hello!

I'm new to Corel Draw 12, although I'm learning fast... ;-) But now I am a bit stuck.

I have to rotate a drawing of a building 180 degrees, but it's made of about 100 objects that are not grouped. As far as I understand I have to shift + click on ALL to select them. This will take ages, because they are not in order and mixed with so many other things on the page too.

So I wonder, is there an easier way to select all objects? Something like make a square selection around the building and chose "group everything only in this area"?

I would be so happy if someone could help me out with this problem!

 

[impulselondon]

Drag your bounding rectangle from outside of the entire drawing area (so you intially catch nothing), and drag it across - or down - to encompass the building and whatever else happens to be in the way.

Holding shift, do roughly the same rectangle, going to the edge of the building. Corel will deselect everything within the second (and subsequent) areas, provided you hold shift down.

This can block up large areas of objects, then you just have to hand-pick anything too small or overlapping.

And you can always let go of shift, group what you have so far, and keep going from there. Once you ultimately have everything you want selected, you can ungroup the subgroups and regroup them all as one.

Or you could just use the object manager - if most of your objects are directly above or below each other, you can shift-select them within the object list.

Hope that made sense.

 

[krissymissy]

Oh yes, it does make sense! Thanks! Also I realised that one of the problems was that the background was not a "real" background. It was a big coloured square over the whole page, so it made it impossible to make area selections because that biggest square was automaticly selected.

 

[mokaplanjr]

You can help yourself by building objects on different layers. To edit one layer, click on it in the layers list in the Object Manager, making sure it is visible and editable. To prevent messing up other objects on different layers, click the editing icon (little pencil in CD 8) to dim it. That way you can see them but not "touch" them. It is a good idea to work in layers anyway so you can control the z-axis (front to back) order and make you editing life easier. You can move ojects from one layer to another if you want them regrouped that way.