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The tool you'll end up using most in Freehand is the pointer tool. The pointer tool basically does 2 functions, it moves objects and resizes. If you click the object and then if it has a fill, or you can click the line, you can move the object, you can resize it by grabbing a handle, and you can resize proportionally by grabbing a handle while holding down the Shift key. Now you can also move objects as a group; by holding the Shift key down you can select multiple objects, then move them as a group. You can also do this by drawing a marquee or what we call marching ants around the box and then move the entire group. But you need to be able to cover the entire object. In this case I was only able to cover the small circle, that's what I am allowed to move. If you hold the alt key down, you temporarily switch to the subselect tool, which we'll get to in the next lesson. I can just hold the alt key down, switches to the select tool.