How to select "next" object

Is there a hotkey to make KiCad select the next object/ the object under the one I select?

For example I want to select the capacitor C16, but when I click on it, it selects the text “C16” and not the capacitor. Its understandable, I have made the capacitor small and the text large, (but thats how I want it to be)

Sometimes this happens in PCB editor as well.

When I was using Designspark, there was a hotkey to “Select next” object, aka select the object that you would select if the current selected object wasn’t there.

You can do this with a long click. If you keep the mouse button depressed for about a second, a menu will pop up which shows all thing under the mouse cursor, and you can select one of the items from the menu.

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Probably the easiest way to select what you want is to hold the mouse button depressed while over the text, you will then be given a list of what is at that location so you can select what you want.

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lovely, lovely, thanks to all of ur answers.

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