Microsoft KB Archive/62796

PowerPoint 2.00 Help: Selecting and Deselecting Objects PSS ID Number: Q62796 Article last modified on 09-25-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

2.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

The information below is taken from the PowerPoint version 2.00 Help file for selecting and deselecting objects.

To select an object, click it. The pointer must be an arrow in order to select an object. If it is a cross hair or other shape, change it back to an arrow by clicking the arrow tool at the top left of the window, or by clicking a blank spot on the window. The selection box indicates an object is selected. Selection boxes for single objects have resize handles.

You can select multiple objects three ways:


 * 1) Hold down the SHIFT key and click each of the objects.
 * 2) When the pointer is an arrow, drag around the objects. A dotted box follows the arrow. Objects fully within the box will be selected when you release the mouse button.
 * 3) Choose Select All from the Edit menu.

Note: Resize handles aren’t on multiple selection boxes.

To deselect an object, select another object, choose the arrow tool, or select an empty area on the slide. To deselect one object of a group, SHIFT-click on it. To deselect a group within another group, SHIFT-drag around the group to deselect.

For more information about this topic, refer to Pages 35-36 and 122-125 of your “Microsoft PowerPoint User’s Guide.”

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.