Use Box Select 
to select stitches in a rectangular area. Click Box Select and the pointer changes to the box select pointer 
. Click and drag around the area you want to select. When you release the mouse button, the block will show you the extent of the selection. Click outside the block to make a new selection using this method. Right-click to deselect.
Use Add to Selection
with any select function to increase the area of selected stitches, or use Remove from Selection
to make the currently selected area smaller.
The block can be moved, scaled and/or resized, mirrored horizontally and vertically and rotated to any degree. The block can be copied or cut to the clipboard and then pasted to the same or another embroidery. The block can also be deleted.
Box Select is also activated automatically when a block is pasted into an embroidery.
If the wrong area is selected, click in the active window, but outside the box, to deselect.
Shortcuts
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Select, Home Tab; Status Bar:
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Keys: Alt, H, B
Select a Heart with Box Select
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Click the Hoop icon
and set the hoop size to 240mm x 150mm - Universal Large Hoop 2, Rotated orientation. Click OK.
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Click File, New
to open a new window.
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In the Quick Access toolbar, click Insert
.
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Browse to the folder Documents\mySewnet\Samples\Stitch Editor\Stitch.
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Scroll down and load the 'Hearts and Lace’ embroidery.
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Zoom in
to the area to the right with the small hearts.
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Click Box Select
. The pointer changes to the box select pointer
.
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Click and drag around one of the small hearts to the right, then release the mouse button.
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Click outside the block to make a new selection using this method.
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Right-click to deselect.
The heart is now surrounded by a selection box.