The Tools menu
There is just one choice under the Tools menu and that is Tools > Options…

The tools palette opens in a separate window and looks like the image to the right.

It is quite powerful in its ability to control what types on relationships you would like to see displayed in a map.

Sometimes when working with maps you are not interested in seeing former relations (the ones with dotted lines). This tool allows you to control whether current, former, or both types of relations are displayed.

Suppose we are only interested in seeing the current relations in a map.

The default setting is to display both current and former relations. To change the default setting we choose one of the choices that appear after Displayed Relations at the top of the palette - in our case we are interested in current relations, so we click the button to the left of the word Current and then clcik the OK button at the bottom of the palette.

The map will redraw and all of the former relations will be removed from the map. If we don’t like the results of what we have done we can go back and change this option to Both, or see what it looks like with just former relations.

Below the displayed relations options is an area where you can choose what types of items (or Actors) you would like to hide. You can choose as many or as few of these as you like, but if you choose to hide them all, your map will display nothing.
To choose more than one type to hide control+click on the types you wish to hide (command+click on the Mac).

Click the OK button to see the results.

At the top of the Options palette are two buttons. One says Filters (which is what we have been looking at) and the other says Group.

We have a choice to auto-group or not auto-group. Auto-group is selected by default.

As we discussed earlier in our look at grouping, the auto-group feature will put items into a group if there are a certain number of them that appear in a map. Un-checking the Auto-group box in the Options palette will prevent the maps from grouping items.

Mouse actions
This is a quick rundown of some of the features that can be done to manipulate maps by just using your mouse.

Click on a name
Clicking on a name other than a group expands that name, adding new names to the map that are related to the one you clicked.

Control-Click on a name
Control+clicking on a name other than a group centers the display on that name. This is the same display you would get if you started a new search from the name you clicked.

Shift-Click on a name
This automatically creates groups from names related to the name you clicked (similar to the Edit > Organize menu option).

Click on a name and drag
This will move the name to a new location in the map. If multiple names are selected, all selected names will move by the same amount.

Click on empty space and drag
Selects names in the map. Any name that touches the drag box will be selected. Selected names are indicated by a magenta border.

Shift-Click on empty space and drag
Selects more names in the map. Any names that were previously selected remain so.

Control-Click on empty space and drag
Unselects all names that touch the drag box.

Click on empty space
This unselects all names in the map.

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