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The Select Connected command (Selection > Modify Selection > Connected) automatically selects all points or polygons that are connected to the currently highlighted points or polygons.
This is a powerful tool and one you should add to your memory banks. An object that is surrounded by others may not be easily selected using a volume, and may have several surface names (making name selection tedious).
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Polygons that have overlapping points, but don’t share any of those points, will not be affected. Use the Merge Points command (Detail > Points > Merge Points) to make the edge shared.