5.10 Selecting in Groups

Grouping is a wonderful thing when you need to treat a collection of objects as a whole. If you simply click any object in a group with the Selector tool, the entire group gets selected. However, quite often you want to select and edit an object inside a group without ungrouping it. This is possible by -clicking an object in a group.

-clicking completely ignores any grouping, no matter how many levels deep it is. For example, if object A is a member of group B which, in turn, is a member of top-level group C, then -clicking ...

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