manual/_manual/04_ardours-interface/02_basic-gui-operations/03_selection-techniques.html

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title: Selection Techniques
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<p>
  Ardour follows the conventions used by most other computer software
  (including other DAWs) for <dfn>selecting objects</dfn> in the 
  <abbr title="Graphical User Interface">GUI</abbr>.
</p>

<h2>Selecting individual objects</h2>
<p>
  Clicking on an object (sometimes on a particular part of its
  on-screen representation) will select the object, and deselect other
  similar objects.
</p>

<h2>Selecting multiple (similar) objects</h2>
<p>
  A <kbd class="mod1 mouse">left</kbd> click on an object toggles its 
  <samp>selected</samp> status, so using <kbd class="mod1 mouse">left</kbd>
  on a series of objects will select (or deselect) each one of them. You can
  construct completely arbitrary selections with this technique.
</p>

<h2>Selecting a range of objects</h2>
<p>
  In cases where the idea of "select all objects between this one and that
  one" makes sense, you can select one object and then click
  <kbd class="mod3 mouse">left</kbd> on another to select both of them as
  well as all objects in between.
</p>

<h2>Time range selection</h2>
<p>
  To select a time <dfn>range</dfn> in the Editor,
  click <kbd class="mouse">Left</kbd> and drag the mouse. 
  A <kbd class="mod1 mouse">Left</kbd> drag then lets you create other
  ranges and a <kbd class="mod3 mouse">left</kbd> click extends a range
  to cover a wider area.
</p>