Where Is the Rectangular Marquee Tool in Illustrator?

Located in the Illustrator toolbox under the main Select tool, Super Marquee brings solutions to these issues with rectangular, square, elliptical and circular marquee shape options, plus the non-moving of objects.

What is the marquee tool in Illustrator?

Use the marquee selection technique and drag outside and over the objects. When you use this technique with the Selection tool, all anchor points in the objects are selected; when using the Direct Selection tool, only the points you drag over are selected.

How do you create a marquee selection in Illustrator?

Make selections with the Rectangular Marquee tool
  1. Rectangular: Drag over the area you want to select.
  2. Square: Hold down the Shift key and drag diagonally in any direction.
  3. Draw from the center out: Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (macOS) as you drag.
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