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    62 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests » User Interface  ·  Admin →
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    Completed (Comments Open)  ·  AdminSaurav Agrawal (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    Excited to share that the requested functionality is now available in the public builds starting from V 28.3.0.

    WIth the new Enclosed Mode, you can now select ONLY those objects which are completely INSIDE the marquee. 

    To activate the Enclosed Mode, just press 'E' ONCE after you start doing the marquee with the Normal Selection Tool or Group Selection tool. 


    Please note that, 

    1. The button E acts as a toggle, which means you just have to press E once, to get into or out of the enclosed mode.

    2. You have to press E only after doing the marquee, pressing E in empty canvas will invoke the Free Transform tool or the tool the shortcut 'E' is assigned to.


    We made a lot of effort in building this capability, so please try it out and let us what you all think!

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    What Haveyou commented  · 

    I agree that this basic feature is essential, but I don't agree that any modifier keys or specific dragging directions should be required. Shift-drag is already used to add to the selection. so that won't work.

    This should be a selectable selection mode, and in fact it should be the default.

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