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Locking and hiding layers

When you lock a layer, you prevent any object on that layer from being selected. Hiding a layer makes all the objects on that layer invisible (and also prevents them from being selected or changed).

• Locking layers  You can lock a layer by clicking on the Lock icon  next to the layer's name in the Layers panel. To unlock it, click the icon.
• Hiding layers  You can make the objects on a layer visible or hidden by clicking the Visibility icon .

Tip: If you press ALT+click on a Lock icon , Expression Design locks all the layers except the layer you clicked, unless all of the other layers are currently locked, in which case pressing ALT+click unlocks them all. Similarly, you can toggle the visibility state of all the layers except one (making them all visible or all hidden) by pressing ALT+click on the layer's Visibility icon .