If you hold down the shift key, you can select any fields you want withing the box, the click on the shape to deselect it,
you have effectively selected all of the items using the mouse.

>>Hi,
>>I am having difficulty accessing contols within a shape, say a BOX.
>>When I try to grab a few fields within certain boxes, the Box is grabbed and I cannot easily access the fields . Is there a way of doing this. (This is only happening on some boxes... I dont know why.)
>>Regards,
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>>Gerard
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>Gerard,
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>If this is design mode you are talking about, and you are trying to "sweep" your mouse over several controls to select them, it won't work because no matter where you click, you have clicked on the box.
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>For design mode, I usually drag the box over to the corner of the screen while editing, then drag it back later.