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Selecting notes

Click on a note to select it. Cmd+click on a note to add/remove from the current selection. Option+drag to band-select notes. Click on the background to clear the current selection.

Cmd+click on the background does not clear the selection - this makes it easier to do non-contiguous selection on busy/small-scale maps and where the chance of accidentally clicking the background by mistake is greater.

Outline/chart view only. Shift+Click on a note to extend the existing selection up/down from the last selected note.

Cmd+A selects all items in the current view (excluding non-displayed child/descendant notes). Cmd+Opt+Ctrl+A deselect all.

For multi-item selections, bear in mind the effect on an nested descendants (i.e in collapsed containers). The contents of collapsed containers are ignored - i.e. only visible items are selected. This allows a set of containers to selected and acted upon without affecting their descendants. However, if such a selection is: