Hi,
When I have one object right on top of another, how do I select both of them? When I draw a bounding box around them, that doesn't work. (See the picture: The "hello" is actually two hellos on top of one another. I want to select both, but not the red box]

I did some looking around and someone said to hold down shift and that didn't work.

thanks

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I'd try alt-click (select under) , shift-click (select more) .

Well actually, you didn't attach any images, so I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, as far as the red box, etc. td has it right, but just some more details, for clarity.

1 - Click once on the top object (selects the top object)
2 - Hold Shift (multiple selection) AND Alt (select under) keys together at the same time
3 - Without moving the mouse, or releasing those keys, click again.

Now you should have both objects selected. And if there were more objects below, you could keep clicking, to add more objects to the selection.

With bounding box selection you often have to include a much larger area than you think you need - especially if the objects are filtered. If there's a part of your red box that's easy to click on, separately from the other objects, I would draw a bounding box to select all three, then shift-click on the red box to de-select it, leaving you with just the other two objects.