Select A Group

  see also select by element type

• Click the Select Group tool. The cursor becomes an arrow.
• Click and draw a box around elements to be selected, then click again.  Or position the cursor, press Enter, use the arrow keys to draw the box, then press Enter.
• When selected, the elements turn magenta in color and the Alter Plan tool bar appears (to the right of the main tool bar).  While options vary according to the elements selected, in general they can be:

• Cut or copied
• Moved
• Rotated
• Resized
• Flipped horizontally
• Flipped vertically
• Change Color
• Line Style
• Fill Pattern

    Click to un-select the element.  (Press Enter if using arrow keys.)

More Info:

     Only those elements entirely within the box are selected.  This action can be changed in Preferences under General.

Also see: Select An Element Altering Drawing Elements

When all selected elements are of the same type, additional options are available.

For instance:

If all selected elements are walls, you can do things that pertain to walls, like changing the wall thickness or the fill pattern. All selected walls will reflect these changes.

If all the selected elements are text, you can change the font specifications for all the selected text elements.

But, if the selected elements are of different types - i.e. some are walls, some are text - then you are limited to operations that can be performed on any element like moving, copying, etc.