Ctl-Clicking Keywords to add multiple keywords to images

Question

Ok. Maybe I'm just overlooking something here, but:
I would like to be able to select multiple keywords and drag them onto an image to apply them all at once.
Problem is, when I select the first keyword, it automatically sorts my Library to the images containing it (thus losing view of the image I want to tag.)
In Elements it would only sort when selecting the check box next to the keyword. (Another reason I want check boxes!!!!!!!!!!) Elements would allow you to select multiple keyword tags themselves (without sorting images as you do so) and you could drag all the keywords to an image (or selected images) to apply them at once. How do you do that in LR?
In a similar vein (sp??) I would like to add keywords to the keyword painter by dragging them from my keyword list and dropping them onto the painter entry field. That way I know exactly which keyword is going in, and am not mis-spelling or mis-naming a keyword, or typing one that doesn't exist yet, or is coming from the incorrect hierarchy... and I don't have to type anything in.
If I'm having a brain fart and missing something obvious here let me know.

Answer 1

>Ok. Maybe I'm just overlooking something here, but:
Perhaps you're overlooking use of right-click context menus...
>I would like to be able to select multiple keywords and drag them onto an image to apply them all at once
1. Select the keywords you want to add in the keyword panel.
2. Right-click one and choose "Use these as Keyword shortcut".
3. Display the image(s) you want to add them to in the grid and select all of them.
4. Right-click the selection, and choose "Add keywords..."
It's not dragging, but it works.
>In a similar vein (sp??) I would like to add keywords to the keyword painter by dragging them from my keyword list and dropping them onto the painter entry field. That way I know exactly which keyword is going in, and am not mis-spelling or mis-naming a keyword, or typing one that doesn't exist yet, or is coming from the incorrect hierarchy... and I don't have to type anything in.
Same idea...
1. Select the keywords you want to use in the keyword panel.
2. Right-click and choose "Use these as Keyword shortcut".
3. Click the painter icon "spray-can" and the keywords are displayed and subsequently used by the painter.
(Translate keystrokes if you are on a Mac.)
There are also keyboard shortcuts for all of this stuff which are actually faster than the right-click menus.
>If I'm having a brain fart and missing something obvious here let me know.
With due respect, based on your many posts about keywording deficiencies perhaps you are too locked in to the Elements paradigm. Try thinking outside of that box with LR. It has its shortcomings, obviously, but I've found I can get an awful lot done with it by forgetting about the way other applications do things.