How to add a bunch of objects to selection?

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How to add a bunch of objects to selection?

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In the `Edit Objects` mode, is there a way to add a bunch of objects to an already existing selection by dragging the mouse pointer?

What I mean by "dragging" is that I want to select a bunch of adjacent objects without clicking on each of them individually.

I tried to do it by holding CTRL (because for a new selection, I can hold CTRL to select multiple objects by clicking on each individual object) but it didn't work with an already existing selection.
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Re: How to add a bunch of objects to selection?

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Hello, math

I am afraid not, each "object" is a separate item in PDF, and so the detailed editing functions form them and their respective properties is restricted. You can of course use multi-select to reposition and scale them as a group, but if you need to adjust the position of one objects Arm, that will be a separate action.

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