- You right click (Windows) or Control + click (Mac OS) on the object you want to select and a contextual menu will appear.
- Go to Select and you will see a list of options of things you can select. It should appear as in the illustration below. Choose the option you need. The last two options in the Select sub-menu will appear if an object which was part of a group was selected before you made the contextual menu show up.
InDesign CS Selection, Type, and Line Drawing Tools
From Elisabetta Bruno, About.com Guest
Let's say you have two overlapping objects. You want to get the object that is below, but you don't want to move the one that is on top.
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- The Selection Tools
- Selecting Objects in a Group
- Selecting Objects Under Other Objects
- Selecting All or Some Objects
- The Pen Tool
- The Type Tool
- The Pencil Tool
- The (Hidden) Smooth Tool
- The (Hidden) Erase Tool
- The Line Tool
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The Rest of The Tools, Part 1
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