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Your Secret Weapon: The Group Selection Tool

You've created a complex page with groups inside groups inside groups. You've lost track of how things are organized. And you're missing QuarkXPress's dotted line border to see where the groups are. How do find out what's what?

Your answer is InDesign's secret weapon: The mysterious Group Selection tool. You can't see it on the Tools palette, but it's always at your disposal. Here's how it works: In Figure 20-1, we've created two groupsthe circles and the squaresthen we grouped these two groups together. Click once with the Direct Selection tool on a path segment (not anchor point). Then, to get the Group Selection tool, hold down the Option/Alt key (the + cursor shows you have the right tool) and click again. This time the entire path is selected. A third Option/Alt-click shows the first level of grouping. A fourth click shows the second level of grouping. Each time you click with the Group Selection tool, you get the next hierarchy of grouping.

Similarly, you could direct-select a picture inside a frame, and then Option/Alt-click the picture to select the next object "up"the frame itself.

Once you've selected what you want with the Group Selection tool, you can press V to switch to the Selection tool and InDesign acts like you've selected the object (or objects) with the Selection tool. For instance, you could then switch to the Rotation tool to rotate these items.