Selecting branches and graphics

You can select branches just by clicking on them. If you want to add other branches to your selection, you can either:

•	Hold the Shift key down while you click on other branches and graphics

•	Use the menu item "Edit / Select Siblings" to add all the sibling branches of the selected branches to your selection

•	Use the menu item "Edit / Select Descendants" to add all the children and grandchildren etc branches of the selected branches to your selection

•	Hold the Shift key down while you drag a region around the other branches and graphics you want to add to your selection (see below for details)

You can select multiple branches and graphics by using your left mouse button and clicking and dragging across the canvas. Your selection area will be colored and as items are selected their graphic handles will appear to show they are included. Release the mouse button when finished.

To de-select all the selected graphics and branches, simply click elsewhere in the Mind-Map. To deselect a single graphic, hold the Shift key while clicking on it.

The operations on the menus, toolbars, and context menus operate on multiple selections, so you can select a number of graphics and/or branches and perform the same operation on them all if you wish. When you have multiple items selected, and the settings are different, it is common to see checkboxes that would normally either be checked or unchecked to have a dash in them to indicate that some of the selection would make the box checked and some would make it unchecked. These checkboxes are still active, and allow you to either check or uncheck all of the selected graphics or branches.