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## 4.10 Mouse shortcuts

For the beginner, choosing a selection or transformation mode and working with the left mouse button is easiest. Frequent Ipe users don't mind to remember the following shortcuts, as they allow you to perform panning, and transformations without leaving the current mode:

| Left Mouse | Middle Mouse
Plain | (*) | move
Shift | (*) | pan
Ctrl | stretch | rotate
Ctrl+Shift | scale | move horizontal/vertical

The fields marked (*) depend on the current mode.

The right mouse button is used to select objects (just like the left mouse button would do when in Select mode). Holding the Control key when pressing the right mouse button brings up the object menu.

If you have to use Ipe with a two-button mouse, you obviously cannot use the shortcuts for moving, panning, and rotating, and will have to use the mode buttons. In all other situations where you would normall use the middle mouse button (for instance, to move a vertex when editing a path object), you can hold the Shift-key and use the right mouse button.

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