Trouble selecting multiple graphics

[Karen Robbins]

Really? Then why does the online FrameMaker 11 help say (or seem to say)
that you can?
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/WSd817046a44e105e21e63e3d11ab7f741c8-7ffb.html#WSd817046a44e105e21e63e3d11ab7f741c8-7fe9

And what the heck kind of workflow is that... making you click and
copy/paste or whatever three, four, five times instead of once?

--Karen

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Paul Wilbraham <paul.wilbraham at m-ais.com>wrote:

> **
>  Karen
>  You cannot select more than one graphic frame, anchored or unanchored, at
> a time.
>
>  --Paul Wilbraham
>
> On 09 April 2013 at 18:50 Karen Robbins <karendesign at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi Framers,
>
> I'm not able to select multiple graphic frame objects. Diagonal dragging
> to encompass the objects with an invisible border only selects the last one
> over which the cursor passes. Using the shift-click-drag method gives the
> same result. Clicking the individual items' edge, with and without any
> modifier key I can think of, gives the same result. These graphic frames
> are not anchored. They often overlap the main text flow frame, but are not
> fully within it.
>
> Ctrl+A grabs the main flow and any graphic fully within its text frame,
> but no graphics that partly overlap the frame. On a page with no main flow
> elements, ctrl+A grabs all text frames but only two of three graphic
> frames.
>
> I've tried both the smart arrow cursor and the dumb one.
>
> What am I missing?
>
>  Frame 11.0.1.382, Windows 7.
>
> Thanks,
> Karen
>
>
>
>
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