Select overlapping elements with QuickPick


QuickPick helps you select elements that overlap each other.

  1. Pause your cursor over the element you want to select.

  2. When the cursor changes to the QuickPick prompt, right-click.

    The QuickPick list displays near your cursor. It contains an entry for each selectable element.

  3. Move the cursor over the entries in the QuickPick list, without clicking, until the element you want to select is highlighted in the document.

    Example:

  4. Click the entry in the QuickPick list to select the element in the document.

Tip:
  • You can use the QuickPick Options dialog box to specify the QuickPick properties you want. For example, you can specify whether the left or right mouse button activates QuickPick.

  • The QuickPick prompt (A) indicates which mouse button you should click to activate QuickPick.