An option to limit Select > Same / Object commands to the current or specific artboards
I would like the ability to use the "Select" tool to select similar items that appear only on one artboard. Illustrator will now select all similar items throughout the document, on all artboards. I need to be able to select similar items on a single artboard without affecting other artboards. This would save me a tremendous amount of time.
Colby Johnson
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Sarah Cushing
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Agreed on this. I don't use Global edit often because you can't use it to delete everything selected, which is annoying, but I love that you can direct it to only select on certain artboards. Although, it would help to add 'current' to the options, because I'm always trying to figure out what the number the artboard is so I can type it into 'range'.
Edit: It doesn't bode well that people have been asking for this since 2018, but honestly this functionality would make a huge improvement in my daily workflow and I'm surprised it's not a more common ask.
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Callum Johnson commented
I should be able to limited my Selection to the specific artboard I'm working on, and not have it select the entire document if I want to experiment with a reduction in Stroke size for example. By being able to toggle between this being applied to the entire document, or currently selected artboard, would be a great increase to speed and workflow.
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Aaron
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Agree most wholeheartedly.
Implement a Preference checkbox which allows user to define whether the 'All' of 'Select All' applies to all pasteboards or the active one, is needed. And a keyboard combo to temporarily toggle the other state without having to go to preferences!
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True. Global Edit have some options to limit searching with artboards and/or canvas (it’s strange though we can’t limit it to a current artboard!).
Select > Same and Select > Object commands don’t have these options at all. Must have.New idea from comment
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Anonymous
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If you copy and paste items onto multiple artboards and then try to select only items with the same color, or line style, etc., it selects all items across all artboards.
You should be able to use global selection tools confined to only 1 artboard (or able to click specific artboards).
