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Brian_Clay
January 26, 2021

Cmd+Opt+Drag only selects items in bounds

  • January 26, 2021
  • 41 replies
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Mass selecting elements in Figma can be a pain. Especially with the new changes to auto-layout sometimes elements will get nested 4 or 5 frames deep. In Sketch, you can press Cmd+Opt while dragging to select a group of objects. When you do this it will only select elements completely within the drag area. This makes mass selecting way more powerful. I’d love to see Figma copy it or come up with something better.

41 replies

Jakob_Lee
April 21, 2022
kamil4
April 25, 2022

Plus one here! Moving a 50 items on a complex screen layout is insane without this feature.

JB16
May 2, 2022

+1 from me as well, coming from XD where this makes select within a group so simple

Dykas
May 6, 2022

Desperately, desperately needed feature over here … 😦

Jaime_Alcantara
May 12, 2022

+1 for this feature. It’s incredible powerful!

Jelmer
New Member
July 12, 2022

This is the main reason for me to move away from Figma, beck to Sketch (along with annoying custom fonts handling which I still don’t understand)

toggi.skulason
October 6, 2022

Please Figma, this is such a useful feature. Once you get used to it, there’s no going back… Well, I guess I could always go back to Sketch 🤔

Jose10
New Member
October 18, 2022

Definitely this is one the reasons I feel clumsy in Figma and still prefer Sketch for quick mockups

Beatrice_HU
November 23, 2022

Would be plus when building and testing out our new table components

P1X3L
New Member
January 12, 2023

Currently transferring a huge multibrand whitelabel project from Sketch to Figma and I really miss this feature.