How to select multiple shapes or objects in word? (2024)

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
Quickly select all shapes in current document with Kutools for Word

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:

Quickly select all shapes in current document with Kutools for Word

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 Object paragraphs utility of Kutools for Word to acheive it. Please click Kutools > Paragraphs > Select Enbed Object paragraphs. See screenshot:

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Dulmin

about 2 years ago

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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)