How Do You Subtract from a Selection in Illustrator?
Contents to Add or Subtract Objects from the Selection, Hold Down the Shift Key, and Then Click Unselected Objects to Add or Click Selected Objects to Subtract...
To add or subtract objects from the selection, hold down the Shift key, and then click unselected objects to add or click selected objects to subtract them from the selection.
How do you subtract from a selection?
To subtract from a selection, click the Subtract from selection icon in the Options bar, or press the Option key (MacOS) or Alt key (Windows) as you select an area you want to remove from the selection.
How do you add to and subtract from a selection?
Add to or subtract from a selection
Select a selection tool, and do one of the following: Hold down Shift (a plus sign appears next to the pointer) to add to the selection, or hold down Alt (Option in Mac OS) to subtract (a minus sign appears next to the pointer) from a selection.
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