Align to locked objects in Illustrator

Hello,
I recently switched from Freehand to Illustrator. In Freehand you could lock an object or group and align other objects to the locked ones. In Illustrator this is not possible, because you cannot select an object that is locked.
How can I do this, then ? Can't believe that this shouldn't be possible !
Thank you.

why are you locked the object first select the object after that center point will appear you click on it after that select another object which is align the first object verticall horizentally
khurram shah

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In earlier versions of InDesign I used the Align palette, spacing 0 mm, and "dragged in" other objects to perfect fit to the center object. InDesign drags in objects from the right this way. So if I needed to drag in objects from the left side I locked the center object first and InDesign understood what I wanted to do.
In CS5 and 5.5 this is not possible anymore. If I lock an object it is not selectable. But there is a preference setting for this so I change it. Now I can select the locked object. But when I try to align it with another object there is an error message saying I can't move this object because it i locked. Well... I am not trying to move it hence the lock I applied...
I don't understand this changed behaviour. If a locked object is out of play I might as well use the layer palette and lock objects that way.
Could someone please shed some light on this?

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I am using InDesign CS4. But I am having a trouble aligning objects. I know that in illustrator it is possible to align objects to a main object. For example, lets say I have several same square shapes on my page. I can make any one of the squares as the main object for others to get aligned or distributed to.
I wanted to do the same thing in InDesign but was never able to do that. I wonder if it is even possible to do that. InDesign doesn't seem to have that option. But it was such a handy tool.
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Thanks Peter Spier. I am sorry for the misleading information. You were right about the alignment and distribution tools. On my CS4, the Alignment option works with the locked object, but the Distribue Objects and Distribute with Set Space doesn't work with a locked object. I am trying to use the distribute with a set spacing around "the main object". In other words, it will make my work a lot easier if I first align an object at a certain point on the page and then use two other text frames on both sides of the object with an equal spacing (using the Distribute Spacing tool).
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Why would you lock or hide an object on the artboard vs. doing it on the layer?
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Whether you lock the object by Object>Lock>Selection or by clicking its lock icon in the object stack in the Layers palette, you're doing the same thing.
Locking by the menu is a convenience. Suppose you have multiple objects you want to lock that may or may not reside on the same Layer. Using the menu command (or keyboard shortcut), you can lock them all in one whack. Why would you want to have to dig through the tedious Layers palette to lock them one by one?
Locking objects is yet another interface element that is poorly implemented in Illustrator. Once an object is locked, you can't select it to unlock it or align objects to it. You either have to dig for it through the tedious Layers palette, or you have to unlock everything that's locked.
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