Banding bow? you mean marquee selection? (click and drag to draw a rectangle over your areas?) As far as I've seen there is no zoom on the free version. You can select areas that have a material, region or group assigned. Which does you no good if your are assigning stuff from scratch. What I often end up doing is expanding my work area to fill my entire monitor - then squishing the uvmap down to fit in one corner. Then I pull the areas out I want to fiddle with and make them bigger. After I'm done with those I put them very small on the other side of the screen and work on the next part. After I've gotten all the sections mapped to my satisfaction, then comes the annoying part - making all the pieces larger, and fitting them onto the map. It can be a lot of work - but a good map can make or break a model :) Good luck! Lyrra