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Select Similar Objects and Global Edit

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Select Similar Objects and Global Edit

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- [Instructor] All right, now I'll show you a couple of features that allow you to edit multiple duplicate objects all at the same time. The first is select similar and the second is global edit. All right, so I'm going to click on this line right here with the black arrow tool in order to select it, and I'm going to press the backspace key, or the delete key on the Mac, because technically, I don't really need that one, and then also like this next line, and let's say I want to take that line as well as all the other lines that are just like it, and I want to change their line weights. In that case, I could go up here to the control panel, and notice this option right here, select similar objects. If you click on I, then you're going to select all of your lines, and that's because they all have the same line weight, the same line color, and no fill. At which point, I could say, "You know what? I want to go ahead and change that…

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