selecting and hiding bones

[Jenk]

At moment I am have a difficult time selecting the bones on far side of 4 legged character, side view. I would like to make and saving different selections of bones so I can hide and show the selection sets when I want . Can I select and hide by name or colour and save selection sets?... failing to find a good method currently. Thank you

[synthsin75]

If you offset the bones on frame zero (move them and their art away from the interfering bones and use the offset bone tool to realign them), then you can toggle design mode (ctrl+shift+D) to go to and from frame zero for selecting bones.