Select a few words at the same time / non-contiguous text selection
I would like the ability to select single words at the same time in a document (helpful to put emphasis on words e.g. bolder text).
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Cheryl L commented
I need this, too! For example, I will import a block of text that looks like this:
"She [Am] told me she worked in the [Am] morning and started to [D] laugh [D]
I [Am] told her I didn’t and [Am] crawled off to sleep in the [Bm] bath [E]"...I would like to be able to search the entire document, selecting everything in brackets, and change it to bold text, red text, or both. As it is now, I have to go in and select each occurrence one at a time to make those changes.
Similar to the way "Edit/Find and Replace" is used, but that can only change the characters themselves. Please add more options and allow me to add a symbol to select unknown characters (for example, seach for "[*]" where the asterisk indicates that I am searching for any text within two brackets.
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Ada commented
It would be nice to select different sentences within a text box—for example the first and the last sentence.
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As far as I remember, the insertion point, the cursor, was always at a single position, and multi-selections like you describe were not possible.
I will recheck this thoroughly, but I bet you confuse it with something else (or I don’t know something!).
I like the idea though. I’d suggest holding Opt/Alt for this. -
bbjurgain
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In previous versions of Illustrator it was an option to select several letters/words that are not connected to make non continuous edits like superscript or subscript of only parts of text, but still at several places in the same text.
Is this still an option, and in case so, HOW? -
Relates to this request:
A tool for Text Selection
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/39471382
