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5. Click the brown fill of the background shape behind the picnic table
artwork to select it.

Because you clicked the fill, you selected the entire object. If you had clicked along the
object’s stroke, you would have selected that particular segment of the shape’s edge.

Only some objects in
the group are selected.

Clicking with the Direct Selection
tool selects only that object.

6. Choose Select>Same>Fill Color.

The options in this menu are very useful for finding objects that share specific attributes.
They select all similar unlocked objects on the entire artboard.

The Select>Same menu options select objects regardless of which layer they occupy.

7. With all eight brown shapes selected, use the Control panel to change the
Stroke color to None and the Fill color to a medium green.
Note:
You can also use the
Select Similar Objects
menu in the Control
panel to select objects
with like attributes.

8. Using the Direct Selection tool, click any of the black shapes that make up
the picnic table icon.

9. Choose Select>Same>Fill Color.

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