Multiple text selections

Having made the transition from Word to ID CS4, one of the things I miss most is the ability to select multiple text instances (by holding down Ctrl as you select them with the mouse).
Or is this possible in ID CS4 via an alternative route?

Are you telling me it may be time to upgrade my copy of Word?
Actually, I think you're being mislead somewhat.
Let's be clear:
In Word 2003 and 2007, you can "mouse-select" text within multiple text boxes, (holding down Ctrl).
In Word as far back as I can remember, (and I'm not young), you could always hold down Alt while drag-selecting to make a vertical selection, (described earlier in this thread as selecting bullet characters only). Very handy when cleaning up someone else's tab disaster.
In Word, you CANNOT select dis-contiguous text that all resides on the same open page. At least I have yet to do it.
In ID, you indeed CAN Pick-Tool select multiple text frames and apply a single paragraph style to all.

Similar Messages

  • How do I select multiple text in Pages

    I'm using the newest version of pages.
    In MS office WORD, I can hold the Ctrl key and with multiple klick in the text I can select multiple text.
    Does pages has the similar function?

    Not possible in Pages 5.2.2, this has been removed by Apple along with 110 features.
    In Pages '09 you hold down the command key, the exact same equivalent as in Word for Windows.
    Peter

  • Cannot select multiple text items simultaneously

    Since upgrading to the latest Pages, I can no longer select multiple letters/words by holding down command. I used to use this to edit multiple things (titles, for example) all at once (make bold, underlined, italicized, larger font, coloured, etc.). Now, however, I have to select each letter/word one at a time and edit them individually.
    Is this just a bug or is there a new way of selecting multiple text characters simultaneously for editing?
    Thanks!

    There is no fix by any means.
    Switching from Word to Pages v5 (any release) is like giving up oxygen for a vacuum. The time that you will expend searching for feature/functionality omissions in Pages v5 that you had in MS Word will just suck the life out of you.

  • Editing Multiple Text layers in Photoshop CC

    Hi,
    I have a problem when tyring ot edit multiple text layers and it's really a big problem as it crops up with virtually every design I do (websites, games apps...)
    In previous versions of PS, you could select multiple text layers and edit them in bulk, so for exmaple, select a number of text layers, then change their font size (to say 20pt)... done.
    However, with CC, there seems to be some odd 'ratio' editing goign on - if  I select multiple text layers of different size and edit them (to all be 20pt, for example), it seems to just 'add' 20pt to what ever font size the individual layers were
    It's a real issue/pain for me (and I suspect many others)
    Please is there a fix or a way to switch off this 'feature'?
    So to clarrify, I want to edit multiple (often different) text layers in one go to be the same font size... like I used to be able to.
    Thanks.

    The last few times we saw this, it was due to a bug in a video card driver.
    Please update your video card driver from the GPU maker's website.

  • Populate drop-down list from multiple text fields.

    Just to begin, I am brand new to this application and brand new to coding in general. Anyways, this is what I am trying to accomplish. I need to populate a drop-down list from multiple text fields. I am able to populate one item using this in the calculate event:
    TextField1.rawValue
    After I type text in TextField1 and hit enter, it displays the text in the drop-down list. I need to do this but with more than just one text field to populate more options for the drop-down list. I will also need to do something similar with populating a drop-down list from selections made in multiple other drop-down lists.
    Thanks for any help you can give me.

    Thank you for your suggestion Geo Kaiser. With that, I was able to populate my drop-down lists, but now when I select an option from the drop-down list, the selection dissapears. The selection will appear briefly in the box but then dissapears although my drop-down list options remain there. Here is the code I am using for my text field to drop-down list:
    DropDownList1.clearItems()
    DropDownList1.addItem(TextField1)
    DropDownList1.addItem(TextField2)
    And here is my code for my drop-down list to populate another drop-down list:
    DropDownList3.clearItems()
    DropDownList3.addItem(DropDownList1)
    DropDownList3.additem(DropDownList2)
    Thanks again for your help. By the way, I am using Adobe Designer 7.0.

  • How do I make multiple text bold, for example scene headings or character names?

    How do I make multiple text bold, for example scene headings or character names?

    You can do that by editing the template of the document.
    Open the document, go to Edit->Template. A dialog will launch which will have element types on the left and it's properties on the right.
    Select Scene Heading(or Character name) on the left. On the right, go to 'Text' tab and click on Bold checkbox.
    Press OK.
    Hope this helps.
    Cheers,
    Sunny

  • Text Selection Hangs Since iOS 5.1.1 Update

    I have an iPhone 4 32GB on the AT&T network.
    Updated it to iOS 5.1.1 about two weeks ago.
    Since the update multiple applications (Apple and 3rd Party) have been showing this behavior:
    1) Click in a text entry or text area form field,
    2) Begin typing text,
    3) Touch anywhere in the field to bring up the monicle selection caret,
    4) The monical selection caret is shown and I can move the monical/caret around the screen,
    5) Un-touch the screen,
    6) ERROR - The monicle and the selection caret don't respond to user touch input and the app/OS hang for anywhere from 5 to 15 seconds,
    7) The standard "Select | Select All | ..." context pop-up window is shown, after that the app/system are responsive again. 
    Regarding the ERROR at step 6) above: Clicking Home does nothing, turning on/off with top-button does nothing, force shutdown responds only after the monicle/caret selector un-hangs.
    Once this has happened in a given text field/text area, it doesn't happen again on a subsequent text selection touch event... UNLESS I sleep the device, wake the device on the same app/field and try to select again... then it hangs again.
    To note, while it's hanging the loading-spinner is displayed in the title bar next to the AT&T 3G/Wifi Antenna icons, suggesting something in the background is doing a network search that's locking then entire foreground process.
    I've attempted to:
    1) hard reset the device,
    2) restore from a backup of 5.1 (doesn't have the aforementioned problem) and reinstall the 5.1.1 update (has the problem)
    3) swear at it and curse Steve Job's mock-turtleneck for allowing such a peice of **** bug to exist (even if it's not his fault ex post homine)
    Any further help would be great... I may end up downgrading to 5.1 just to not have to deal with this perpetual headache.
    Thanks,
    Etienne

    I'm having the same issue.  Phone started to degrade after update to 5.1.1  I have restarted, reset and restored from backup. I haven't tried to restore as new, as I'm not sure what the impact will be in my need to reset my corporate exchange e-mail, etc. 
    I see from many posts on other boards this is not isolated and is impacting many users. I'm using verizon as a the cell carrier. 
    My phone is warm and eating battery at a rate of 10% per half an hour in standby mode. No new apps or anything else of that nature.
    Tinus Barnard wrote:
    Will they fix this?

  • Reg Query For Multiple Text Fields

    Hi all
    I am New to this forum..
    I am developing an application for generating reports.
    In my application i have multiple text fields.
    The user might enter any of the textfields or even enter all the fields.
    In those cases how to use the query when some fields are empty??

    Welcome to the forum.
    It always helps to post a small, simplified example of what it is you're trying to achieve.
    (When posting examples, put the {noformat}{noformat} tag before and after the example, so it will get posted formatted on this forum.)
    In those cases how to use the query when some fields are empty??If your textfields serve as parameters/bind variables for you query, then you could use NVL.
    Something like:select ...
    from some_table
    where col1 = nvl(p_col1, col1)
    and col2 = nvl(p_col2, col2)
    And how about wildcards (the '%' or '_' sign), by the way? Are they allowed as well?
    You also might want to read about this approach:
    http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/09-jul/o49asktom.html                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

  • Can I format a paragraph in illustrator, with multiple text sizes?

    Hi,
    I have a number of paragraphs in illustrator that have the following...
    a title = Arial bold 18 pt.
    body text =Arial reg 14 pt.
    and indents with bullets
    It seems that illustrator only supports one font, size, color, etc. for each Paragraph style. I would like to be able to set the title to Arial bold, 18pt, Blue, and the body text to Arial regular, 14pt, white, with different leadings, within the same style setting. Does anyone know if this can be done?
    Thank you in advance.
    Knewt

    What are you guys talking about? Since when does InDesign support multiple text attributes for a single Paragraph Style? At least in CS3 InDesign's Paragraph Styles have settings for nested Character Styles and drop caps, but you still define one set of text attributes for the Paragraph Style itself.
    In principle it's basically the same in Illustrator. If you want to actually have multiple text treatments in one paragraph, you apply Character Styles to text ranges within the paragraph. Illustrator's implementation of it is pure crap in that inheritance and style redefinition does not work correctly, but the fact remains you certainly can have multiple text treatments in one paragraph, but it is not done with a single Paragraph Style. If using Styles (as you should) it is a matter of nesting Character Styles within paragraphs that have Paragraph Styles applied.
    But I strongly suspect that what Mr. Harley is describing is not really a single paragraph at all. He wants different text sizes, different indents, and bullets. That clearly involves multiple paragraphs.
    Harley, in part of your description of what you want, you seem to be referring to a single textframe object as a "paragraph." A paragraph is a range of text separated by a carriage return. When you define and apply a Paragraph Style, the carriage return defines the range of the Style. When you define and apply a Character Style, the selected range of characters define the range of the Style. You can use multiple Character Styles within a paragraph that has a Paragraph Style applied.
    But you are talking about the need to define several Paragraph Styles to use in one block of text, or "story" (one or several textframe objects). You just need to define three Paragraph Styles:
    Heading: Arial Bold 18 pt.
    Body: Arial Regular 14 pt.
    BodyBullet: Same as Body, but with different indents. Set a tab at the bullet location and at the left indent. (You type your bullet characters; you don't just select "bullets" from a setting.)
    Type all your text, using carriage returns as you would expect. Each carriage return marks the beginning of a new paragraph. (This is as true in Illustrator as it is in InDesign, Word, or anything else.) Click inside a paragraph and apply the appropriate Paragraph Style.
    Now suppose you want to use a convention within your document that emphasizes certain words or phrases by painting them magenta instead of whatever color is defined in the Paragraph Style. Create a Character Style. Name it Emphasis. In that Style, set the character color to magenta. Now swipe across a word in one of your paragraphs and apply the Emphasis Character Style. The whole paragraph still has the Paragraph Style you applied to it. But now the color of a few characters is overridden by the Character Style you have applied to those characters.
    Again, like many things in Illustrator, its implementation of Paragraph Styles and Character Styles is very sloppy compared to other programs. But it is not true that 'InDesign can apply multiple text treatments in a single Paragraph Style, and Illustrator can't.' At least not up to CS3.
    JET

  • The file size of selected file in input file control is shown as 0 for multiple file selection in Safari 5.1

    The file size of selected file in input file control is shown as 0 for multiple file selection in Safari 5.1. If you select single file, then it is able to return file size correctly. However, if you select multiple files, then the file size of each of the selected file is always returned as 0 from javascript. This works correctly in Safari 4.0 but it does not work in Safari 5.1.
    How do I get the correct file size in Safari 5.1 ?

    If you want to post (or send me) a link to the lrcat file, I'd take a look at it for you, and give you a break-down what's consuming all the bytes. But it might be fun to learn how to do that yourself (e.g. using SQL). I use SQLiteSpy, but other people have their favorites.. (or you can use a command-line client if you prefer..). One way: just run "drop table "{table-name}" on each table then look at filesize (do this to a copy, not the real thing).
    Anyway, it's hard to imagine keywords and captions etc. taking much of the space, since even if you had 1000 10-character words of text metadata per photo average that still only adds up to 117MB, which isn't a substantial portion of that 8G you're seeing occupied.
    Anyway, if you've painted the heck out of most of them and not cleared dev history, that'll do it - that's where I'd put my money too...
    One thing to consider to keep file-size down:
    ===================================
    * After reaching a milestone in your editing, take a snapshot then clear edit history, or the top part of it anyway (e.g. leave the import step), using a preset like:
    Clear Edit History.lrtemplate
    s = {
        id = "E36E8CB3-B52B-41AC-8FA9-1989FAFD5223",
        internalName = "No Edit",
        title = "Clear Edit History",
        type = "Develop",
        value = {
            settings = {
                NoEdit = true,
            uuid = "34402820-B470-4D5B-9369-0502F2176B7F",
        version = 0,
    (that's my most frequently used preset, by far ;-})
    PS - I've written a plugin called DevHistoryEditor, which can auto-consolidate steps and reduce catalog size - it's a bit cumbersome to use a.t.m. but in case you're interested...
    Rob

  • Which event dispatched after text selection done on spark text area in Apple iPad using Adobe Flex 4

    I need to know which event triggered after text selection done in Apple iPad. This way i have done in desktop air app code (mouse events)
    protected function txtEditor_mouseUpHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
                if(txtEditor.selectionAnchorPosition != txtEditor.selectionActivePosition){
                    showNoteToolBar(event);
                    txtEditor.focusEnabled = true;
                    txtEditor.setFocus();
    But in Apple iPad how to achieve through "Touch Event" ? And also i need how to hide all context menu on Spaek TextArea?. Why Touch.End event is not fired after place cursor on text area ?
    Please help me !

    Ok, so I finally got it working but this is not ideal at all. Adobe really needs to give us some direction on how to properly deal with font embedding and TLF now that the release build breaks all functionality with loading runtime fonts and TLF.
    Problem:
    I am embedding collections of fonts (faces) into single family classes. Each individual face is registered with Font.registerFont(). I need to do this because I have to have mixed fonts within text flows - at least according to Alex H's recent blog post.
    Fonts do not display in TLF without doing the following:
    1. GlobalSettings.resolveFontLookupFunction = null;
    2. editor.textFlow.flowComposer.swfContext = ISWFContext(this.getFontContext("AnyFamilyNameFromAnyFontEmbedded", false, false, FontLookup.EMBEDDED_CFF));
    3. Instead of #2, use editor.textFlow.invalidateAllFormats();
    Either #2 or #3 need to be performed. If I have a spark richEditableText control in MXML with defined familes from the loaded fonts. I even tried placing the control into a separate state so it wasn't created until after the fonts were loaded... I still needed to invalidate the formats or set the context.
    The "AnyFamilyNameFromAnyFontEmbedded" does not need to be all of the embedded family names. It only needs to be one of them. Once one is used, all embedded fonts work. Also, I have to use the internal namespace to even get access to getFontContext, another oddity that, in my humble opinion, should never be necessary to create mixed style TLF content.
    My questions are then:
    1. Why am I required to use ISWFContext if I am using Font.registerFont()?
    2. Why is GlobalSettings.resolveFontLookupFunction = null; also required for this to work?
    3. What is the recommended workflow to embed fonts from multiple SWF files into the release build and have it work without having to jump through all these hoops?

  • Exporting Text from multiple text boxes?

    I'm using InDesign CS3 on the Macintosh. I need to export text from multiple text boxes/stories into one text file. The Export File command only exports text when the text tool is selected and the cursor is in the text box. Unfortunately, I have 8-20 individual text boxes per page, none are linked, and my document is 100+ pages, so selecting each text box individually is much too time consuming. There must be a better way - Please help!
    Thanks!
    Carolyn

    The text exporter plug-in seems to work! I did a quick test - text still will need some clean-up to make sure it's in the correct order, but MUCH better than exporting each story individually. THANKS!

  • Find and Replace Font Colors in Multiple Text Boxes

    Hello,
    I have Illustrator version 15
    I made many text boxes with multiple colors, red and black on each letter. I was wondering if there is a find and replace tool for multiple text boxes. I want to change the reds to black and the blacks to light grey. I tried clicking on change swatch color but it only worked for the letter I had selected, even with the global option selected. I then when to select -> Same -> Color Stroke but it just selected each text box on the page....Is there anyway to do this?
    Jordan

    Not exactly a find and replace but you can do it.
    Select the text frames yu want to change the colors using the shift key to click select the frames.
    Then go to Edit>Edit Color>Recolor Art
    You wll see a dialog with red and black bars along side two shorter bars click the shorter bars to select a New Color a color picker will appear you can use the swatches or the color mixer.
    There is a live preview /so you will see the change in case you want to pick a different gray, of course you can always go back to the recolor art dialog.
    I am afraid you manually have to select text frames with multiple colors in order to accomplish what you want but the method above I believe is the only want to change the colors.
    This video shows how the dialog works but pretend the one frame I did not select is another color.
    http://www.wadezimmerman.com/videos/RecolorText.mov

  • Multiple text colors in my spry menu

    Can I make multiple text colors in my spry menu? I want to match the text color on one of my spry menu items to the hover color so that you know which link you are currently visiting. I haven't posted the site yet until I work out all the kinks. So, to summarize, I have my spry menu link text color (ul.MenuBarVertical a) set to #E00 and my hover color for those items (ul.MenuBarVertical a.MenuBarItemHover) set to #888. All of the links also contain the same spry menu. I would like the link you're currently in to be #888 and the other links to be #E00 with all of them hovering with color #888. How can I give unique color to an individual menu item? Any help you can give is much appreciated!

    Sorry to bug you again. I implemented your suggestion as you can see in this partial pageview:
    <script src="SpryAssets/SpryDOMUtils.js"></script>
    <script src="js/navbar-select.js"></script>
    <script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
    <style type="text/css">
    ul.MenuBarHorizontal a#button1:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a#button1:focus
    { color:#625647; }
    </style>
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id="team-vision" class="container">
    <div class="header"> <a href="#"><img  id="logo" src="images/logo_i.png" width="215" height="36" alt="Greiner Engineering"></a>
    <ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
    <li><a href="index.html">INTRO</a>|</li>
    <li><a href="ger-vision.shtml">VISION</a>|</li>
    <li><a href="ger-2firmen.shtml">2FIRMEN</a>|</li>
    <li><a href="#">PROJEKTE</a>|</li>
    <li><a href="ger-network.shtml">NETZWERK</a>|</li>
    <li><a href="ger-contact.shtml"  id="button1" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">KONTAKT</a>|
    <ul>
    <li><a href="ger-contact.shtml">ADRESSEN</a></li>
    <li><a href="ger-team.shtml">TEAM</a></li>
    <li><a href="ger-location.shtml">LAGEPLAN</a></li>
    </ul>
    </li>
    <li><a href="ger-links.shtml">LINKS</a>|</li>
    <li><a href="ger-publications.shtml">VERÖFFENTLCHUNGEN</a>|</li>
    <li><a href="ger-jobs.shtml" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">JOBS</a>|
    <ul>
    <li><a href="ger-jobs.shtml">OFFENE STELLEN</a></li>
    <li><a href="ger-practice.shtml">PRAKTIKUM</a></li>
    <li><a href="ger-thesis.shtml">DIPLOMARBEIT</a></li>
    </ul>
    </li>
    <li><a href="ger-impressum.shtml">IMPRESSUM</a>|</li>
    </ul>
    </div>
    I did this in ger-kontakt.shtml, ger-team.shtml, ger-location.shtml
    but it does not leave KONTAKT highlighted.
    If you want to check it out my url is http:/www.lsdcoach.com/greiner-engineering. Select GERMAN and the click on KONTAKT. The other menu items without a submenu work great.

  • Multiple Text Boxes Populating a Single Field

    I need to create several select lists in a form that can each populate the same field in a table, but obviously need for the select lists in the form to be mutually exclusive so that the user can only enter data into one of them.
    There is also a field on the form displayed as a radiogroup, and I would like for the user's selection on this radiogroup to dictate which one of these multiple select lists they use to enter this data.
    Before I do any of this, however, I guess my first question is, how do I create multiple text entry fields on a form for just a single field in the table?

    hi brice--
    if you're coding your form page manually, you'd simply add your extra fields to your page definition and conditionally diplay and use the values you needed. i'm guessing you're asking about wizard generated forms.
    you can associate multiple fields with a single database column on your form by simply adding the extra ones you need and conditionally displaying/processing the ones you need. your other questions sound like javascript ones to me. if it were me, i'd take a look at our javascript how-to document at...
    http://otn.oracle.com/products/database/htmldb/howtos/htmldb_javascript_howto2.html
    ...and find the specific javascript i needed from google.
    hope this helps,
    raj

Maybe you are looking for