Lock and hide 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 therefore also prevents them from being selected or changed.
Locking or hiding layers
To lock a layer
- In the Layers panel, click the Lock icon
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next to the name.
Note
To unlock a layer, click the .png "Cc294772.bc1d5d9e-0048-4d04-8efe-c9b571f71a64(en-us,Expression.30).png")
icon.
Tip
To lock or unlock multiple layers at once, drag the mouse vertically across the Lock or Unlock.
To hide or display a layer
- In the Layers panel, click the Visibility icon
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.
Tip
If you press ALT+click on a Lock icon , Microsoft Expression Design locks all the layers except the layer you clicked, unless all 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 .
Tip
To show or hide multiple layers at once, drag the mouse vertically across the Visibility icon .