That said, the 'select object' tool that exists in Word 2010 should allow you to select individual shapes. You can select multiple shapes holding down the CTRL or SHIFT key while clicking shapes. A drawing in Word is more than the sum of its parts—that is, until you try to move it. Mary Ann Richardson shows you how to move or resize layered drawings or objects in Word without them.

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How to select or click on objects which are located behind text in Word so you can format, move or resize them at will.To enquire about Excel Training in the. I have, for example, a few objects in my Word document such as lines and squares and want to select them all to copy and paste or group. But once I click on the Select Objects arrow, nothing happens when I try and select the objects. I use Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010. Thanks in advance.

How to select multiple shapes or objects in word?

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.

Kutools for Word : With more than 100 handy Word add-ins, free to try with no limitation in 60 days.

Just click Kutools > Shapes. See screenshot:

Then all shapes in current document are selected immediately.

Select Objects Microsoft Word

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

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Demo: Quickly select all shapes in current document with Kutools for Word

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Select Multiple Objects In Microsoft Word

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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)
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  Thanks for your knowledge guys!
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  Not 'SHIFT or CTRL', but 'SHIFT and CTRL', to select multiple shapes or objects.
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  Does not work in word 2010. Holding shift/ctrl does not work.
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  the latest version of word is many steps backwards in terms of user friendliness..
  utterly useless
  the guys who designed it need firing
  the guys that agreed to put this out to market were even more stupid

How to select all embedded objects in Word?

If you need to select all embedded objects in Word, how do you select? Now this tutorial will introduce you following methods to select all embedded objects in the whole document or the selection of the document.

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Select all embedded objects with the VBA

Instead of select embedded objects one by one, the VBA is an easier way to select all embedded objects.

VBA code can select all embedded objects, do as follows:

Step 1: Press Alt+F11 to open VBA window;

Step 2: Click Module from Insert tab, put the code into Module window;

Step 3: Click Run button or press F5 to apply the VBA.

The VBA code to select all embedded objects:

Sub SelectAllEmbedObjects()
Dim tempTable As Object
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
ActiveDocument.DeleteAllEditableRanges wdEditorEveryone
For Each tempTable In ActiveDocument.InlineShapes
tempTable.Range.Paragraphs(1).Range.Editors.Add wdEditorEveryone
Next
ActiveDocument.SelectAllEditableRanges wdEditorEveryone
ActiveDocument.DeleteAllEditableRanges wdEditorEveryone
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

Select all embedded objects with Kutool for Word

It is painful and time consuming to select all embedded objects one by one, if you are not good at Macro. It is so complicated to use VBA to select all objects. Now recommend you an easier way to select all embedded objects. With one click, you can select all objects in the whole document or a part of the document.

Kutools for Word, a handy add-in, includes groups of tools to ease your work and enhance your ability of processing word document. Free Trial for 45 days! Get It Now!

Click Kutools > click Paragraph Select in Paragraph group > click Select All Embedded Word Objects Paragraph from drop down list. See screenshot:

Note: if you only want to select all objects from a selection of the document, please select a part of the document first, and then apply this tool.

For more detailed information about Select Embed Object Paragraphs of Kutools for Word. please visit: Paragraph Select feature description

Microsoft Word Select All Objects

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• Merge and combine multiple Word files across folders into one with your desired order.
• Split the current document into separate documents according to heading, section break or other criteria.
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  Thanks for the help.
  But in my case i would like to compare two word files that are embedded in Excel 2013.
  Can you help me with the code for that.??
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  this software is perfect