Select Objects Microsoft Word

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Format tab that appears on the right end of the ribbon, and then, in the Arrange group, choose Selection Pane. Select one or more items in the list. (Use Ctrl+Click to multi-select). Drag the selection upward or downward, or click the up (Bring Forward) or down (Send Backward) arrow. A Quick Word About Text Wrapping. Before we get to those positioning tools, though, you should know a bit about text wrapping. By default, when you insert images and other illustration objects into your document, Word applies one of two forms of text wrapping: “in line with text” (for images and most other illustration objects) or “in front of text” (for shapes and 3D models). Press and hold CTRL and select shapes, pictures, or other objects to group. The Wrap Text option for each object must be other than In line with Text. For more info, see Wrap Text. Do one of the following.

How can you quickly select multiple shapes or objects in Word? This article will show you the following tricky things to select shapes or object quickly in your document.

Select multiple shapes or objects with Select feature
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Select multiple shapes or objects with Select feature

Select multiple adjacent shapes or objects at once:

1. Click Select > Select Objects under Home tab. See screenshot:

2. Draw a box over the shapes or objects to select them all at once. See screenshot:

Note: press the Esc key can release the selection.

Select multiple non-adjacent shapes or objects at once:

1. Click Select > Selection Pane under Home tab. See screenshot:

2. Then the Selection pane is display on the right side of document, and all objects are listed out. Please hold down the Ctrl key, click on the object name one by one to select them at once. See screenshot:

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If you want to select all shapes at once time in current document, the select Shapes utility of Kutools for Word will do you a good favor. Please do as follows.

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Just click Kutools > Shapes. See screenshot:

Then all shapes in current document are selected immediately.

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Tip: If there are multiple embedded object such as Word object, Viso object and so on in your document, and you want to select them all at the same time, you can apply the Select Enbed Objectparagraphs utility of Kutools for Word to acheive it. Please click Kutools > Paragraphs > Select Enbed Object paragraphs. See screenshot:

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How To Select Objects In Word

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    Thanks for describing about that Select feature in Word. It's very useful (Honestly I didn't know about that feature before)
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    Thanks for your knowledge guys!
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    Not 'SHIFT or CTRL', but 'SHIFT and CTRL', to select multiple shapes or objects.
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    Does not work in word 2010. Holding shift/ctrl does not work.
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    the latest version of word is many steps backwards in terms of user friendliness..
    utterly useless
    the guys who designed it need firing
    the guys that agreed to put this out to market were even more stupid