In the image below, I started dragging above and to the left, and then dragged downward if I let go here, the top six frames will be selected. Any object that is inside the area you drag out (called “the selection marquee”) will become selected - even if just a little part of the object is inside or touches the marquee. So you start off on the side (perhaps even on the pasteboard, off the page itself!), then drag over the objects. If you start on top of an object, you’ll just click (and probably move) that one object. Actually, to be clear, you need to start dragging (where you press down on the mouse button) off to the side of the first object, where there are no objects. Drag: You can drag the Selection tool over more than one object to select them all.
Alternatively, if you want to select a lot of them in a row, you can click on the first object’s name (this time it’s the name inside the Layers panel, not the selection square), then Shift-click on the last one, and then choose Select Items from the Layers panel menu. Click the open-triangle to the left of the layer name, then click-and-shift-click on the little square to the right of each object you’re trying to select (assuming you can figure out which object is which!). Shift in Layers: If it’s difficult to click on the objects on the page for some reason, you can select them in the Layers panel.Keep Shift-clicking to select more objects. Shift: You can click on one object, then hold down the Shift key on your keyboard and click another object.But you cannot select an object on page 2 and another on page 9 at the same time. That is, all the objects in a selection must be on the current page, or current spread, or pasteboard around the current spread of pages. Here’s one important rule before I start talking about the techniques: InDesign only lets you select objects one spread at a a time. (If you use the white-arrow Direct Selection tool instead, you get something different I’ll discuss that later.) That lets you select the object and its contents - that is, a frame and the picture inside the frame or a frame and the text inside the frame. In general, when you want to select more than one object, you need to use the Selection tool (the black arrow tool).
Let’s take a moment to cover an important technique that every InDesign user needs to know: How to select more than one object at the same time on your page or spread.
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