To manipulate objects or define their properties, you must first select them. You can
To select a single object in the Object Navigator:
Click the object. If the object is displayed in one of the Report Editor views, it is also selected in the corresponding view.
To select a single object in the Data Model view, Paper Layout view, Paper Design view , or Parameter Form view:
If a tool in the tool palette is active, first click
in the tool palette.
Click the object.
To select multiple objects in the Object Navigator:
Click the first object, then either:
Shift-click another object to select all objects between the first and current object.
Or, control-click additional objects to add them to the selection
group.
Objects that are displayed in one of the Report Editor views are also selected in the corresponding view.
To select multiple objects in the Data Model view, Paper Layout view, Paper Design view, or Parameter Form view:
If a tool in the tool palette is active, first click
in the tool palette.
Do either of the following:
Shift-click each object.
Or, click and drag a region that includes all of the objects you want to select. (In the Data Model view, note that if the first object you select is a column within a group, everything else you select must be a column within the same group; you cannot select columns within groups at the same time as you select queries, groups, report-level columns, or parameters.)
To select a set of objects owned by a frame or repeating frame:
In the Paper Layout view, either:
Click
in the toolbar to set Confine mode on.
Or, if you want to explicitly select all objects to set common properties,
click
in the toolbar.
Click the frame or repeating fame.
All objects within the frame or repeating frame are selected, depending upon their explicit anchors.
To select grouped objects (grouped using LayoutGroup
Operations
Group),
click
in the tool palette and click one of the grouped objects.
To select all objects within the region (Body or Margin of the Header Section,
Main Section, or Trailer Section) you are currently editing, choose EditSelect
All. (In the Data Model view,
note that this does not select any columns within groups.)
To select any object that is partially or completely overlapped by
another object:
Click the object that obscures the object you want to select.
Choose LayoutSend
to Back to move the object that you want on top of the object that obscured
it.
Click the object.
To deselect a single object in the Object Navigator:
Control-click the object. If the object is displayed in one of the Report Editor views, it is also deselected in the corresponding view.
To deselect a single object in the Data Model view, Paper Layout view, Paper Design view , or Parameter Form view:
Shift-click the object.
To deselect all selected objects:
Click anywhere in a blank area.
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