Flyboy and Gary,

This is my feeling as well. I believe I sent in a suggestion to that affect just after Xara X was released. I thought I must have been off-target because no one else brought it up until now.

I think it must be a core element of the program that it uses the rear most object as a "key". I get the impression the same logic is used in for the Combine Shapes functions.

Perhaps if Xara could "know" the last selected object, then the ClipView, Combine Shapes, and Alignment functions would be easier to use.