you can do what you want
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- lukus_W0
One problem that I sometimes find difficult, is that there are literally so many different ways to do the same thing. I think this is a problem that Illustrator has - and this can make it feel pretty counter intuitive.
I reckon a lot of applications are built from the point of view that they provide the user with a workshop environment.
You're given the space to work (the application) and you're provided with a range of tools (functions). With applications like this, the actual metaphor that the UI follows is a mirror of it's implementation. Programmers like this, because it's far more straightforward to code .. but it means that the user has to do a lot of the work, and join-up the dots themselves; rather than be presented with a way of working, each user needs to work out their own specific ways of using the program.
Learning the keyboard short-cuts for Illustrator's vector tools made my life much easier.