Brother International BES Lettering INSTRUCTION MANUAL - English - Page 98

96 Pacesetter BES Lettering Instruction Manual Selecting and Moving Parts of a Design The Select Tool The Select tool allows you to select and modify individual design components, or groups of design components. Design components that have been selected using the Select tool can be moved, duplicated, or deleted. They can also be resized and rotated in either direction. To duplicate a component, select it, then press CTRL on the keyboard and click while dragging. When you have reached the desired location on your Workspace, release the mouse button to place the component. The Select tool is also used to select a number of components in order to align them as you wish; for more information, see, "Aligning design components horizontally and vertically". The Select tool can be used for both text segments and design segments; however, to do more detailed editing of text segments, such as resizing, stretching, or rotating, you will want to select them with the appropriate text tool. For more information on editing with these tools, see the corresponding sections for each tool under "Creating Lettering". It is important to note that, whenever you open a design, all the components will be grouped by default. Therefore, of you want to use any of the following procedures to select individual segments of the embroidery design, you must first Ungroup the design. To do this, right-click on the design (you will see that the whole thing is enclosed in a selection box, and choose Ungroup from the context menu. To select one segment in the design: 1 From the Home tab, click the Select tool. 2 Click the design component you want to select. The active segment is enclosed in a selection box.