Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 User Manual
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Reshaping objects
Last updated 6/5/2015
Pressing Shift+click+drag displays a rectangular marquee, which allows you to easily merge multiple paths.
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To use the Erase mode of the Shape Builder tool, press the Alt key (Windows) or the Option key (Mac OS) and click
the closed region that you want to delete. When you press the Alt key (Windows) or Option key (Mac OS), the
pointer changes to
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In Erase mode, you can delete regions within selected shapes. If you delete a region that is shared by multiple objects,
the shapes are broken in such a way that the regions selected by the marquee are removed from the shapes.
You can also delete edges in erase mode. This option is useful when you want to clear the remaining portions after
creating the required shape.