Hiding a shape behind another shape

Greetings,
I'm new to Adobe Illustrator (CS5) and, as the topic says, have an very basic question: how to hide a shape behind another shape? (say a star shape behind a rectangle)
I've looked up on tutorials and such and from what I've seen, the layers order containing each of the objects decides how the occlusion should occur, however I've tried doing that but with no luck, am I missing something here?
Regards,
Ming

Ming,
Objects may be in the same layer (Illy is quite different from Photoshop).
You may:
1) Expand the relevant layer(s) in the Layers palette (click the arrow(s) to point downwards);
2) Simply ClickDrag the object to be (partially) hidden downwards until it is below the object that is to hide it; or the reverse.

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