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Continuing with our discussion of naming and selecting, let's look at named selection sets. Now supposing that we select all the hair here, I am just holding down the control key left clicking to do this, go up to the name selection sets input box, type in hair and hit return. We now have a selection set named hair. Now let's select something other than the hair, let's select the left eye here and we want to select the hair again. Simply go up to the name selection sets, click on the drop down and there is hair. Okay and it selects all the hair again. Let's try that with the eyes. Click on the one eye, pull down the control key and click the other one to select both the eyes, go up to the box, type in eyes, hit return, click off the objects, get rid of the selection and come back and now we've got both hair and eyes. You can click on that to get the eyes and that to get the hair. To manage name selection sets, go to the name selection sets dialog on the edit menu, and as you can see your existing sets are here. You can click the plus signs to see what's in them. You can create new sets here as well, so I'll create a set with whatever objects you have selected. So for example, select the facial features, click create new, give it a name and there is our new selection set. You can also delete selection sets. You can add items to a selection set. You can remove those items from the selection set, you can select the objects in the current set. The current set now is hair, so we click and select the hair. You can go to the select objects by name dialog and those objects will be selected. And you can highlight selected objects so that you can easily see which objects are selected and what sets they’re in. So for example, here I have selected the right eye and hair 03 and you can see they're highlighted in green. And next, let's take a look at a feature that allows you to quickly rename multiple items. Let's take a look at these hairs here. They've still just got their default names. If we click on them, they're named cone01, cone02 and so on. So let me select those again, go up to the tools menu and down to rename objects. This lets us rename multiple objects all in one operation. So let's give this a base name of hair and tell it to make it numbered in steps of 1 based on 0 and click rename. Get our of that. Now let's go look at what these names are hair03, hair02 and so on. And we did that, just by selecting all the objects and then in one operation renaming them. Continuing with features for naming and selecting, let's run through the select by color feature. The first thing we need to do is to make all this hair one color. This is done by selecting the hair and then clicking on a color box. Go down here and click on a color box, choose it green and then click OK. I’ll click off it so it not selected, go to edit, select by color. You get a special cursor. You click on one object that is that color, all the objects with the same color are selected. If you're doing a lot of selecting by name, so that you would like to have a select by name tool available to you all the time. Up on the tools menu here, there is a selection floater. This gives you all the same capabilities as select by name. If we bring up select by name, you can see that they are the same. But the difference is the selection floater stays visible all the time. Now while we're here, let me show you a couple of things and these work with the select by name dialog as well. One is that you can double click on an item and select it that way. So double click on eye and select it. Double click on hair01 and select it. Another is, that you can use the shift key to select the range of items. So for example click on hair 00, press down the shift key and press hair 03 and you select the whole range of items. is, that you can use the shift key to select the range of items. So for example click on hair 00, press down the shift key and press hair 03 and you select the whole range of items.