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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.

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Juan Casares
New Member
October 16, 2025

This is basic functionality. Please!
So many times I drag-select and then have to manually unselect half the objects.