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There are three selection options: Select, Select Special and Select All.

Selection Tools

With the Select Tool, click and drag around an area in the warp, tie-up, weft or color bars to mark. The area that has been selected will be highlighted. After selecting, there are various options such as copy and cut to work with the selected threads. Keyboard shortcut for Select Tool is "A"

Select Special allows selection of an area that is too large to select with the normal Select tool. Start clicking and dragging as with the Select option; when the mouse is released, a box pops up with options as shown below allowing the extension of the selected area through the end thread, through a selected thread, or select all threads. Keyboard shortcut for Select Special is "Q" (letter above the shortcut for select).

Select and Select Special

When a selection tool is used, the cursor location at the upper right changes to dynamically show the number of threads selected. In the example below, the selection area is shaded over 10 threads, ends at thread 14 and begins at thread 4 (Threads 10| 14, 4).

Selected areas are often used in conjunction with copy, insert or delete.

To select everything in the area that has focus (warp, tie-up or weft), ctrl-A will automatically select the entire region.

To remove a selection, press the escape "esc" key and the shaded area will be removed.