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Is there a way to tell how many objects (paths) I have selected?

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Apr 14, 2009 Apr 14, 2009

Is there an easy way to tell how many paths I have selected in Illustrator CS4?

I have a bunch of tiny line segments on the artboard, I want to make sure that I have enough for what I need, and I don't want to have to hand count hundreds of them to be sure... is there a readout somewhere in the Illustrator UI that'll tell me how many things I have selected??

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Contributor , Apr 14, 2009 Apr 14, 2009

Go to Window > Document Info, in the popout menu on the right side make sure Selection Only and Objects are checked. If the lines (and only the lines you want to count) are selected, the number of lines will be listed next to Paths in the pallet.

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Apr 14, 2009 Apr 14, 2009

Go to Window > Document Info, in the popout menu on the right side make sure Selection Only and Objects are checked. If the lines (and only the lines you want to count) are selected, the number of lines will be listed next to Paths in the pallet.

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Guest
Apr 14, 2009 Apr 14, 2009

Thanks!

I feel dumb now, I skipped right over the "Document Info" palette and went straight for the "Info" palette when I was searching through the palettes.

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New Here ,
Jun 22, 2018 Jun 22, 2018

You saved my life, thanks a lot.

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Explorer ,
Aug 08, 2018 Aug 08, 2018

Thank you - I found it

In windows, if anyone's looking for it, the pop-out mentioned is the hamburger menu.

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Explorer ,
Sep 04, 2018 Sep 04, 2018

Haha "Hamburger menu" never heard this before you clearly eating strange burgers

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Explorer ,
Sep 20, 2018 Sep 20, 2018

Sorry - I guess that's a UI/UX term...

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New Here ,
Jun 09, 2022 Jun 09, 2022

thank you that helped.

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Community Beginner ,
May 18, 2020 May 18, 2020

I couldn't think of a way to Google this question until stumbling upon this thread which gave me the exact answer. Excellent BenWMac.

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New Here ,
Jun 15, 2020 Jun 15, 2020

You Genius! Thank you so much. Just a simple thing maybe, but it has changed my life. I have to order numbers of different concrete slabs from designs, & I used to have to count them all up by hand...

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Explorer ,
Jul 23, 2021 Jul 23, 2021
How many objects selected illustrator Count selected objects in illustrator Number of anchor points in illustrator Sow number of selected objects in illustrator How to count selected objects in illustrator How to know how many objects are selected in illustrator
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Community Beginner ,
Oct 17, 2024 Oct 17, 2024

Adobe Illustrator 2024 V. 28.5 >> Amount of selected objects info GONE!

Hi guys, the info that tells how many objects are selected does not exist anymore. Where is the info?? Why is this "tool" / doc info not included in the update version? How can I count the objects in Illustrator?

 

Where is the information: number of selected objects?

 

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Community Expert ,
Oct 17, 2024 Oct 17, 2024

View > Document info > Objects?

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 17, 2024 Oct 17, 2024

@Ton Frederiks : NO. 

This menu is not existent anymore. number_objects_ne2.png

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Community Expert ,
Oct 17, 2024 Oct 17, 2024

I think Ton meant Window > Document Info:

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 17, 2024 Oct 17, 2024

Mate, thanks, that was tight! 😄

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Community Expert ,
Oct 17, 2024 Oct 17, 2024

x-x-x-x,

 

Even tighter, that was the in the original answer by Ben in 2009 and marked as such:

 

"Go to Window > Document Info, in the popout menu on the right side make sure Selection Only and Objects are checked. If the lines (and only the lines you want to count) are selected, the number of lines will be listed next to Paths in the pallet."

 

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Community Expert ,
Oct 17, 2024 Oct 17, 2024
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Yes, my mistake, should have been Window

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