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Selecting objects from layers panel - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Adobe Certified Professional - Illustrator Cert Prep
Selecting objects from layers panel
Now we already mentioned these circles you can click on the circle next to the name of a layer to select everything inside the layer or if you want to select individual objects or groups within the layer you can also click on these circles individually. You can hold down the command or control key to select multiple items within the same layer or even within multiple layers. So again holding down command key I could make selections from each of these layers and by command or control clicking on them again would remove them from the selection and in case you want to make a continuous selection maybe from this item to this item I can also hold the shift key down and that way it will select everything in between using the stacking order from my layers. Now there is a useful technique if you only partially selected objects from a layer. So in this case I only selected four and two of these other objects are not currently selected but I want to move this quickly to another layer, let's…
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