Hello all 
I recently switched over from 3Ds Max to blender, following some tutorials now
But the tutorial mentions to use Shift+Numpad+ to increase the selected vertices
(sort of like the “grow” function in max?) but this doesn’t seem to work for me.
I’m using Blender 2.56a
The tutorials states the following:
Then select all the branches (So Right-Click on any two vertices of each of other branched (not the main vertical
one) and press Shift+Plus(numpad) a few times until all the vertices on the four horizontal branches are selected)
I now just selected everything by hand, but i suppose it could be easier like stated above :o