In Illustrator CS4, there’s been a nice improvement in Aligning and Distributing object using the Align panel. Now when you select the objects to be Aligned or Distributed with your Selection tool (V), and click again on one of the objects to choose it a the Key object, it is highlighted with a much thicker selection. This makes the Key object extremely obvious, which was not the case in CS3. So when you click on an Align or Distribute button in the panel, you can be sure which object all other objects will be Aligned to or Distributed from.

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