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    69 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests » Layers  ·  Admin →
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    Completed (Comments Open)  ·  AdminVarun Sharma (Sr Product Manager, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    Hi Everyone, This feature has been available since August 2020 release (version 24.3). Please update to the latest release using Creative Cloud desktop App: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/creative-cloud-updates.html Thank you for all the feedback.


    You can now select multiple layers in Layers panel. Click the bars (they get highlighted blue) if you want to operate layers and not their content (e.g. to drag to reorder) or click their markers to select their content — circle (target ones) or square (selection ones) next to them. There is no real difference which to pick, but if you want to select a range of layers, using Shift, use target markers.

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    Randall commented  · 

    This feature used to be in Illustrator and was inexplicably removed. You would be able to hold the alt key and drag the cursor down the selection indicators for the objects you wanted to select in the layers panel. That was better than nothing, but I honestly need to be able to highlight objects in the layers panel, right click to open a menu, and choose to select on the artboard all of the highlighted layer panel objects.

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