Quick Reference - Editing Your Map
This is a quick overview of editing the map. Also see Arranging
the Map.
Note:
- Right-click (Windows/Unix) = Command-click (Mac)
- Alt-click (Windows/Unix) = Option-click (Mac)
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To make changes to the map:
- Press Tab, or
- Right-click in the map and choose Edit
Map. or
- Click on the pencil icon in the upper left-hand corner.
When the slash disappears, the map is editable.
- With a map editable, drag items from another map's List View window to copy them to the new map.
To move an object on a map:
To change the shape or label characteristics
of an object:
- Select the node and choose the appropriate command
from the Format menu.
To resize a wire-shaped network:
- Click and drag the end points.
To select a node and its adjacent nodes:
- Alt-click on an object. Continuing to Alt-click
continues to select adjacent items.
To select the devices at each end of a
link:
To re-center the map:
- Control-click the background of the map. The point
you click is centered in the map window.
To scroll the contents of the map:
- Control-drag the background of the map. The window
scrolls the map contents within the map window.
- Press Alt+[arrow key] (or Option+[arrow key], Mac) scrolls the map in the direction of the arrow.
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To zoom in or out:
- Ctr+Alt+drag (Ctrl+Option+drag on Mac) to select an area of the map to zoom into.
- Ctrl+scrollwheel (Cmd+scrollwheel on Mac) to zoom in or out.
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Summary of selection tricks:
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- To select multiple items
- Shift-click.
- To select adjacent items
- Alt-click. Alt-click again to select the items adjacent to those
items.
- To select all routers,
networks or various other groups of items - From the Edit menu,
choose the appropriate command from the Select Other
sub-menu.
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