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- [Narrator] In this movie
I'll show you how to select

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and move multiple art boards
using the art board tool

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and it's ultimately a matter
of pressing the Shift key.

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And so notice a problem
we're having right now

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if I were to click on the big number one

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using the black arrow tool

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which is active at the top of the tool box

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then you can see that its bounding box

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overlaps into art board five

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and the same is true of the number two

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overlapping into art board six,

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three overlapping into art
board seven, and so forth.

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What I want to do is space the art boards

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farther apart from each other

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in order to create this effect here

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so that we have no overlaps whatsoever.

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Alright so I'll go ahead and switch over

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to my document at hand here

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and I'll select the art board tool

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which you can get by pressing Shift + O.

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Notice at this point art
board three is selected.

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If I wanted to select
art board one instead

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then I would just click on
it using the art board tool

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and notice that goes ahead
and selects art board one

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and deselects art board three

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as indicated by this blue dotted rectangle

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along with the scaling handles.

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If I wanted to add art
board five to the selection

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then instead of clicking on it

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which would deselect art board one

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I would shift-click, so
notice, in this case,

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I went ahead and
shift-clicked on art board one

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to add it to the selection
that includes art board five.

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If I was to turn around

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and shift-click on art
board five at this point

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I would deselect it so that
only art board one is selected

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if I wanted to deselect it as well,

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I would shift-click again.

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So shift-clicking is a
toggle, in other words,

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it's either going to add an
art board to the selection

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or subtract that art board.

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In my case though, once again,

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I want to select both
art boards one and five

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so I'll click on art board one

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shift-click on art board five

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and now let's say I want to
move these two art boards

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100 points over to the left.

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Well I could just go ahead and drag them

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and notice, because my
smart guides are turned on,

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I'm seeing these X and Y coordinate values

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in that tiny heads up display.

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The problem is, these are absolute values,

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not relative ones, so they don't tell me

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how far I'm moving my art boards

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they're just showing me

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what the new coordinate
positions are going to be

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which frankly doesn't
really do me any good

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and in my case I've gone
ahead and moved the art boards

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without moving the numbers

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and that's because this icon
up here in the control panel

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move slash copy art work
with art board is turned off.

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And so what I need to
do is press Control + Z

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or Command + Z on the
Mac to undo that move

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and then turn that icon on

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so that I move numbers one and five

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along with their art boards.

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But again, the problem is,

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I don't know how far I've
moved those art boards

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down and to the left.

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So I'm going to undo that movement

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once again by pressing Control + Z

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or Command + Z on a Mac,

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and then I want you to notice this X value

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that's active up here
in the control panel.

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If you click after it you
can add or subtract points

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so for example if I entered
plus 100 after the value

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and then press the Enter key
or the Return key on a Mac

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I would move the art boards
100 points to the right.

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That's not what I want,
I want to go to the left,

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so I'll press Control + Z

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or Command + Z on the
Mac to undo that change

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and then I'll click after this value,

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and enter minus 100, like so,

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and then press the Enter key
or the Return key on a Mac

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and everything works out the way I want.

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Alright now I want to move art boards

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five through eight downward

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so I'll shift-click on art
board one to turn it off

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and then I'll shift-click on
art board six, seven, and eight

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in order to add them to the selection

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and now I could just go ahead
and drag these guys downward

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but notice if I do, I move
the one, two, three, and four

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because they're overlapping
the lower art boards,

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obviously not what I want,
so I'll press Control + Z

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or Command + Z on the
Mac to undo that change.

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What I need to do instead is
move the top art boards upward

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and so I'm going to take advantage
of a different technique.

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I'm going to click off the art boards

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in order to deselect all of them

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and then you want to
marquee the top art boards

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by dragging across them.

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Now with any other tool inside Illustrator

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you would just perform a standard
drag as we're seeing here

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but where the art board tool is concern

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that goes ahead and
creates a new art board

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which is not what I want.

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So I'll press Control + Z
or Command + Z on the Mac

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in order to undo that change

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and instead I'll press
and hold the Shift key.

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And notice as soon as I do

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the appearance of my cursor changes

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from this kind of box
here, to this arrowhead,

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and then, if I drag, once again,

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while the Shift key is down,

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I will go ahead and marquee
those top art boards

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so that they all become selected.

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And now, as you can see, I
can drag them free and clear

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of the bottom numbers,

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but I don't know how far that movement is.

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And so I'll go ahead and press Control + Z

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or Command + Z on the
Mac to undo that move

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and then notice this Y value
up here in the control panel,

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if I click after it, and enter plus 100,

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then I will move the art boards downward,

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not what I want, so
I'll press Control + Z,

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Command + Z on a Mac, and
I'll click after that value

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and enter minus 100

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in order to move the art
boards upward like so.

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Alright now shift
marqueeing is also a toggle

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and so if I were to press the Shift key

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and then at least just partially-marquee

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art boards one and two,
then I will turn them off,

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so only art boards three
and four remain selected

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and then notice what happens

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if I shift-click on art board eight.

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We end up with this big bounding box

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that includes art board seven

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even though art board
seven is not selected

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and I can tell that it's not selected

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because art boards three, four, and eight

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have blue borders around them

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whereas art board seven does not

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so it's a pretty darn subtle distinction

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but it is something to keep an eye out for

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because notice now,

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if I drag anyone of
the selected art boards

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that I move three, four, and eight,

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but I leave seven where it was.

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Alright I'm going to undo that movement

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again by pressing Control
+ Z or Command + Z on a Mac

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and now I want you to notice
that both the X and Y values

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up here in the control panel are blank

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and if they're blank I can't
perform any arithmetic,

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by the way, so what I'm going to do,

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is shift-click on art
board three to turn it off

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so only art boards four
and eight are selected

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and now I need to move them
to the right 200 points

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to allow room for art
boards three and seven

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to move 100 points to the right

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and so I'm going to
click after the X value

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up here in the control panel

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and I'll enter plus 200, so once again,

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plus moves things to the right,

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minus move things to the left,

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and then I'll press the Enter key

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or the Return key on a Mac
to perform that movement.

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And now I want to move
art boards three and seven

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but if I shift-marquee them

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I will add them to the selection

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so notice that four and
eight are still selected

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which isn't going to do me any good.

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And so I have two options
that are available to me,

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one is to press and hold the Shift key

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and then partially-marquee

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art boards four and eight to turn them off

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or if you end up just making
kind of a mess of things

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and you add art boards to the selection

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and you have no idea what's going on then

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just click off of them
to deselect everybody

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and then I'll go ahead and shift-marquee

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art boards three and seven,
so that they're selected,

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as you can see here on screen,

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I'll click after the X value

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and I'll enter plus 100 this time around

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in order to scoot those
guys 100 points to the right

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and now I'll click off my art
boards to deselect everybody

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and I'll go up to the view menu

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and choose fit all in window

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so that I can see all eight
of my art boards on screen.

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And then, assuming that you're done,

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go ahead and press the Escape key

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in order to exit the
art board editing mode

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and return control to
the black arrow tool.

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And that's how you select and move

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multiple art boards at a time

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either by shift-clicking
or shift-marqueeing

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using the art board tool.