5Selecting
There are few useful things you can do in Inkscape without first selecting some object or objects. Of all Inkscape operations, selecting has, by far, the greatest number of methods, tools, dialogs, and shortcuts available. You need to know a good portion of them to be able to work efficiently—and at least a few to be able to work in Inkscape at all.
By itself, selecting or deselecting objects does not change the document in any way. Therefore, none of the techniques described in this chapter are undoable actions, and none require your document to be saved.
5.1 The Selection Cue
As you probably know by now, Inkscape's selection is just a list of objects, which may include anything—from no objects (empty selection, nothing selected) ...
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