Tips for selecting and deselecting components

A key aspect of form development is the selection or deselection of single or multiple form components. Because some of the techniques for doing this are not obvious, we offer these tips for selecting/deselecting form components in Design Mode.

• The most common way to select a form component is to simply click on it. However, sometimes a component is not easily visible or accessible. When that is the case, you can also locate and select the component by either of these methods:
  • Locating and select it in the Object Viewer.
  • Select it from the drop-down list of components located just below the title bar of the Component property sheet.

• You can select multiple components by either of these methods:
  • Draw a box around the components.
  • Ctrl-click each component.

• You can deselect component by either of these methods:
  • To deselect single components, Ctrl-click each component you want to exclude.
  • To deselect all components, click any part of the form that does not contain a component.