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Common Properties: Enables you to select from a list of commonly-used properties. For example, you can select objects that have certain brush colors, line widths, layers, etc.
For example, If you click Brush Color, the Choose Values window will have the list of all brush colors. Check all the colors you want to include in the query. At the bottom of the window, you can choose Any to select all objects with these colors. If you choose None, objects that have other colors will be selected.
This is how the brush color query looks in the Selection by Query window.
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