The Motion Tutorial

Hi,
New user to Motion and love it. I'm doing the tutorial that comes with the program and I am stuck on page 86. At the bottom it goes over "applying a throw behavior to the remaining shapes. The first step, it reads, "is to click between the thumbnail and the shape icon/name of upper blue box, and drag downward to the lower blue box.
The three shapes are now selected."
I do this and all it does it take the upper blue box down the stack under the lower blue box.
Can anyone enlighten me as to a step that may be missing from the tutorial or perhaps I don't have a proper window pane open?
Thanx,
John

Yip, as mark says, Dragging doesn't do what the author intended in this case, I too fell into that trap recently when doing the same tutorial.

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