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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You can select multiple graphic objects within an anchored frame, but you cannot select multiple anchored frames. You can also select multiple graphic objects that happen to be just floating around on a page, although the only place you might want to have such graphics is on a master page.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It sounds like you need to be thinking of selecting the frame before inserting your graphics (after the first one, that is) so that you can get all your graphics in one frame to begin with.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hope that helps.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Craig<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Karen Robbins<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 09, 2013 1:50 PM<br><b>To:</b> Paul Wilbraham<br><b>Cc:</b> framers@lists.frameusers.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Trouble selecting multiple graphics<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Really? Then why does the online FrameMaker 11 help say (or seem to say) that you can? <br><a href="http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/WSd817046a44e105e21e63e3d11ab7f741c8-7ffb.html#WSd817046a44e105e21e63e3d11ab7f741c8-7fe9" target="_blank">http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/WSd817046a44e105e21e63e3d11ab7f741c8-7ffb.html#WSd817046a44e105e21e63e3d11ab7f741c8-7fe9</a><br><br>And what the heck kind of workflow is that... making you click and copy/paste or whatever three, four, five times instead of once?<br><br>--Karen<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Paul Wilbraham <<a href="mailto:paul.wilbraham@m-ais.com" target="_blank">paul.wilbraham@m-ais.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Karen <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>You cannot select more than one graphic frame, anchored or unanchored, at a time. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>--Paul Wilbraham <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 8.0pt;margin-left:0in;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On 09 April 2013 at 18:50 Karen Robbins <<a href="mailto:karendesign@gmail.com" target="_blank">karendesign@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi Framers, <br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>I've tried both the smart arrow cursor and the dumb one. <br><br>What am I missing? <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Frame 11.0.1.382, Windows 7. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Thanks, <br>Karen <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><br> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>