Use regular selection tool with grouped objects
I would like to be able to select multiple objects within a group using the regular Selection Tool. Currently InDesign only allows me to select 2 items within a group. If I try to select a third object it "exits" the group. The Direct Selection Tool allows me to select multiple grouped objects, but will sometimes select just a vertex or other sub-element of an object. It would be great if the regular selection tool could select as much content within a group as desired. Thanks!
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Marlon
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This is a critical feature request that at the very least should be a toggleable behaviour in InDesign. It seems completely counter-intuitive.
If I double click to select an object inside a group, it's because I want to manipulate objects inside the group.
If I select more objects in the group, it's because I want to manipulate a specific subset of the objects in the group.
If I wanted to manipulate the entire group, I'd single click on any object in the group from the get-go. Or, after manipulating subsets of the group's objects, I'd click away and click back on the group to manipulate the entire group.
There is no reason for this behaviour to exist. But if it must exist, it should be user toggleable.
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NEU!
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I cant think of any reason for this limit of 2. E.g: I doubleclick into a group to select 2 sub-object (knowing InD limit), only to find out, that object i wanted to select are 2 textboxes overlapping. So i instantly need to choose 3+, which wasn forseeable.