Applying keywords to a selection?

Hi,
In 1.01 I could select a number of photos, open the keyword HUD, then drag a keyword from the HUD to one of the selected images. All the images would then receive the keyword.
Now, in 1.1 when I try this, only the image that I drag the keyword to gets the keyword? This this functionality change? How can I apply a keyword to a selection of images?
Thanks,
Allan

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OK, so I've been categorizing for a couple of days now, and everything's going fine. I'm going through around 200gb of files, applying keywords to each one.
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Ignore this post--I went through the archives and found a reference to "Primary Only," which turned out to be my problem.

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I don't want to use the batch change dialogue because this erases all other keyword content before applying the new keywords. This is really annoying, any ideas?
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No, I've just done the same thing a few times and took me a bit to figure out. Being able to toggle this on and off is helpful if say you're adding a bunch of keywords to a selected, and one or two need tags specific to them, then you toggle this on, drop the keywords they need, then toggle off and finish tagging them all with other keywords.

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I cannot apply a keyword to more than one image at a time.
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Did I set something to prevent multiple updates?
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Here's how I do it.
Goto Window Menu, then Show Control Bar.
Again Window Menu, then Show Keyword Controls.
This places a set of buttons along the bottom control bar with the keywords I set up in the keyword HUD. It has a pull-down menu within it to select different groups of keywords depending again on how you set it up. Select multiple images, call up the grouping you need and click the buttons. All the images get keyworded.
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I see,
But that requires that said keyword already exists which slows down the workflow when you're dealing with lots of new keywords, or even existing ones if you have lots and lots of keywords instead of just typing in a keyword (and it perhaps auto-completes). Also I'm somewhat of a keyboard-centric user
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