Method 4: Group Objects by Using “Select Objects” Option in Other Word Versions. Actually, in all Word versions except Word 2010, you can use “Select Objects” option directly to select and group objects without inserting a canvas first. What you need to do is follow from step 5 to step 9 in method 3. Click: how to Select Text and Objects in Microsoft Word at www.teachUcomp.com. Get the complete tutorial FR.
How to select multiple shapes or objects in word?
How can you quickly select multiple shapes or objects in Word? This article will show you the following tricky things to select shapes or object quickly in your document.
Select multiple shapes or objects with Select feature
Quickly select all shapes in current document with Kutools for Word
When you work with many graphical objects such as pictures, charts, text boxes, shapes, etc., it is sometimes challenging to select one of the objects - it can lay behind other objects, or it can be too small, etc. Word proposes an excellent feature named Selection pane to help navigate between different objects and groups.
Select multiple shapes or objects with Select feature
Select multiple adjacent shapes or objects at once:
1. Click Select > Select Objects under Home tab. See screenshot:
2. Draw a box over the shapes or objects to select them all at once. See screenshot:
Note: press the Esc key can release the selection.
Select multiple non-adjacent shapes or objects at once:
1. Click Select > Selection Pane under Home tab. See screenshot:
2. Then the Selection pane is display on the right side of document, and all objects are listed out. Please hold down the Ctrl key, click on the object name one by one to select them at once. See screenshot:
Quickly select all shapes in current document with Kutools for Word
If you want to select all shapes at once time in current document, the select Shapes utility of Kutools for Word will do you a good favor. Please do as follows.
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Just click Kutools > Shapes. See screenshot:
Then all shapes in current document are selected immediately.
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Tip: If there are multiple embedded object such as Word object, Viso object and so on in your document, and you want to select them all at the same time, you can apply the Select Enbed Objectparagraphs utility of Kutools for Word to acheive it. Please click Kutools > Paragraphs > Select Enbed Object paragraphs. See screenshot:
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Demo: Quickly select all shapes in current document with Kutools for Word
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thanks for describing about that Select feature in Word. It's very useful (Honestly I didn't know about that feature before)
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.the latest version of word is many steps backwards in terms of user friendliness..
utterly useless
the guys who designed it need firing
the guys that agreed to put this out to market were even more stupid
How To Select Objects In Word
How to select all embedded objects in Word?
If you need to select all embedded objects in Word, how do you select? Now this tutorial will introduce you following methods to select all embedded objects in the whole document or the selection of the document.
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Select all embedded objects with the VBA
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Instead of select embedded objects one by one, the VBA is an easier way to select all embedded objects.
VBA code can select all embedded objects, do as follows:
Step 1: Press Alt+F11 to open VBA window;
Step 2: Click Module from Insert tab, put the code into Module window;
Step 3: Click Run button or press F5 to apply the VBA.
The VBA code to select all embedded objects:
Sub SelectAllEmbedObjects()
Dim tempTable As Object
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
ActiveDocument.DeleteAllEditableRanges wdEditorEveryone
For Each tempTable In ActiveDocument.InlineShapes
tempTable.Range.Paragraphs(1).Range.Editors.Add wdEditorEveryone
Next
ActiveDocument.SelectAllEditableRanges wdEditorEveryone
ActiveDocument.DeleteAllEditableRanges wdEditorEveryone
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
Select all embedded objects with Kutool for Word
It is painful and time consuming to select all embedded objects one by one, if you are not good at Macro. It is so complicated to use VBA to select all objects. Now recommend you an easier way to select all embedded objects. With one click, you can select all objects in the whole document or a part of the document.
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Click Kutools > click Paragraph Select in Paragraph group > click Select All Embedded Word Objects Paragraph from drop down list. See screenshot:
Note: if you only want to select all objects from a selection of the document, please select a part of the document first, and then apply this tool.
For more detailed information about Select Embed Object Paragraphs of Kutools for Word. please visit: Paragraph Select feature description
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- Complicated and repeated operations can be done one-time processing in seconds.
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- Merge and combine multiple Word files across folders into one with your desired order.
- Split the current document into separate documents according to heading, section break or other criteria.
- Convert files between Doc and Docx, Docx and PDF, collection of tools for common conversions and selection, and so on...
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thanks for the help.
But in my case i would like to compare two word files that are embedded in Excel 2013.
Can you help me with the code for that.?? - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.this software is perfect