Selecting similar objects

[janusl57966078]

Hi Adobe

I'm missing the function to select objects with properties like the one currently selected, the "select same stroke" or "same color" etc. Is that not possible in Indesign?

Best regards, 

[Manan Joshi]

Hi @denni2579,

Surely you do have a right to voice your opinions and nobody can stifle you right to speak. It's just that this isn't the right place to do that as Adobe staff does not visit these forums often. I understand that the response on uservoice might not be to your expectation but that is the only place which has the best chance for people like you and me to approach Adobe Engineering. I hope you do understand our point.

-Manan

[denni2579]

yes I know totatlly understand Manan <3.. I was not accusing anyone in this forum of not doing their job. I have to make that very clear. 🙂 

[Eugene Tyson]

I read your reply as calling Adobe 'stupid', which is a bit rude in my personal view. 

You have every right to voice your frustrations, but this forum is not for that - the InDesign UserVoice is where you can report bugs and request feature requests. 

Coming here and slating Adobe and saying things like 'it's so stupid is not productive or helpful.

The way this works for InDesign and the way the InDesign team has implemented it is that for similar objects across a publication you are asked to create an Object Style - in the object style there are a plethora of options to style your repeated objects - and changing the Object Style will make that a global change throughout your publication.

Reasons have already been given as to why selecting Same Stroke/Fill is not feasible, as you cannot select objects on different spreads - which is not a feature of InDesign. 

Object styles are the correct approach.

If you feel the feature is not robust enough for you - then place a bug or feature request outlining in detail what your idea is and how it can be implemented.

Post a link back here and I will upvote it if I agree with it and others can also upvote it.

But posting here and slating Adobe for a feature that doesn't work the way you want it is not going to be heard by anyone. 

It's best to refrain from calling or referring an entire Team of Adobe Employees who work their socks off for the software that you pay 'a hefty fee' for - who have worked their entire lives and studied, got degrees, and implemented amazing work tools so that you can earn a living from them too. 

You may not agree with how it's implemented - but for me, the buck stops with calling or referring to an entire workforce as 'stupid'.

[denni2579]

wow. Thanks for the detailed response! 

[Eugene Tyson]

No problem - we are volunteers and we are here to help you. We spent a long time learning the software and how to utilise the workflows efficiently.

There's brilliant tool in InDesign - called scripts - that brilliant scipters here will absolutely help you with if you need them. Some free - others might require a small fee, that's between you and the scripter.

If you really need to do this I urge you to start a new thread and request specifically what you require the script to do.

We can only try and help you out anytime you need it. 

Have a great day.

[denni2579]

Thank you, Eugene, I'm sorry to have upset you. I shall learn to keep my frustration restricted only to a paper bag next time...  I love this community and they have helped me out many a time. 

[Eugene Tyson]

You know, I have a 'screaming pillow' too! 

I've had a few features I campaigned for implemented, I'm not saying I'm directly responsible for it, but I did post the idea for Footnotes Spanning Columns which garnered a lot of votes on the UserVoice and it was implemented. I'll never know if it was my campaign or not. But the feature is there now.

And a few minor things here and there where I posted on the User Voice are also now in the software. 

It is a great place to be - this community of experienced Adobe users - coupled with the power of UserVoice - for me blows me away how great everyone is.

And together, we can find a way.

[Kevin27574640h3dk]

You have every right to voice your frustrations, but this forum is not for that - the InDesign UserVoice is where you can report bugs and request feature requests. 

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Reasons have already been given as to why selecting Same Stroke/Fill is not feasible, as you cannot select objects on different spreads - which is not a feature of InDesign. 

By @Eugene Tyson

I mean if I'm reading this correctly, then it stands to reason that you can consider this post and all the frustrated users requesting this as a feature for InDesign. 

Object styles is great if you used object styles from the begining. 

But not every person using InDesign is the designer themselves. Some of us work with InDesign files created by our clients which we can not control whether or not they used the Object Styles feature correctly. 

Client gave me a 106 page booklet, each page with a vector logo made of 16 shapes on each and every page. For some reason beyond my comprehension, each shape is broken down into a stroke shape, and a solid fill shape, none of it grouped, and not a link. So each logo is really 32 shapes just loose on the bottom of each 106 pages. 

And I've been tasked to change the Pantone color of each and every logo in the booklet.

If I had "Select Same Fill & Stroke" I could do that and change all logos at once. 

As it currently stands I have 3,392 individual shapes that I need to manually click to get this job done. 

If this was illustrator I'd have this done in less than a minute. 

In InDesign this will literally take me hours.

Sure, if I had created this file, I would NEVER have set it up this way. But I'm dealing with clients and many designers sending me artwork. So these people can't tell me "Well it shouldn't have been set up like that" when if it was done in illustrator it truly wouldn't have mattered how it was set up.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@Kevin27574640h3dk

If you work on a PC - would you like to try full version of my ID-Tasker tool?

Free version only let you browse, sort and filter - and execute simple Task on the current selection. 

Full version will let you process all objects on the list in bulk. 

[rob day]

As it currently stands I have 3,392 individual shapes that I need to manually click to get this job done.

Hi @Kevin27574640h3dk , Wouldn’t Find/Change Color work?

[johnh11906707]

Hello, one work around would be to select the colour swatch in the swatch window and delete it (right click delete swatch) and when prompted Remove Swatch and Replace with... select the swatch you want your items to become. I have literally just done this, but searched out this thread in an attempt to see if their was a neater way (as the select too in Illustrator).