The object manager is a very powerful feature of cinema 4d. It allows you to
     copy, delete, rename, and heirarchically move around the objects. 

     By heirarchically I mean, you can change the parent>child relationships
     between objects. You can have a root, and then an object, then more sub-objects,
     and then some sub objects inside that. Basically, its VERY like AmigaDOS, where
     you have a root drive, directories containing more directorys etc. And the
     Cinema4d object manager is also VERY like a directory manager utility. 

     If you dont get the above, take this for example. If you have a cone, cube and 
     sphere, they're normally both in the root level of the scene. The root level
     contains the camera and all the main objects, so right now it would looks like 
     this:

        Root:
            Camera
            Sphere
            Cube
            Cone
          
     But, if you felt like it, you could move the sphere and cone 'inside' 
     the cube,  making it a child of the cube. It would then look something like:

          Root:
               Camera
               Cube
    
     If you moved 'inside' the cube, you would see this:

          Cube:
               Sphere
               Cone

     Get it? Hmm, its a bit tricky but if you dont, then dont worry too much about it at
     the moment :) 

     The object manager displays the scene in a very similar way:
     

     Notice that there is two windows, this is to allow you to move/copy objects
     between places in the scene, just like a directory utility.

     If you double click on an object in the object manager, you can move inside 
     it. Click on 'parent' and it will take you outside of the current object and
     display whatever is inside the 'parent' object. (eg, take you 'up' a level).

     Using the object manager, you can load, save, delete, copy (etc..) objects
     in the scene, by selecting the object you want to manipulate, and clicking
     on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the window.

     
Here is a short description of the buttons in the window:



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