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Some way to select the objects that Figma identifies and highlights as similar

  • August 28, 2023
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mmmm
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In this case I have the same component duplicated four times to have five placed instances total. When selecting one of the inside pieces, Figma highlights those same pieces in other parent instances. But there’s no way to select those things Figma’s highlighting without intermediate steps like searching by name. Clicking them all one by one in this example isn’t too bad, but doing it with some nested component across a dozen prototype screens is pretty bad.

It’d be really cool if I could hit some keyboard shortcut or a quick action to go with the existing “select all ” options. (Select all with same instance doesn’t work, it selects all the parent components instead of the highlighted pieces)

With it already being highlighted, it feels so close yet so far.

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Hristian
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  • July 27, 2025

Hey there,

Replying to this a little late, but hopefully, it will help anyone who still hasn’t found the solution.

As you pointed out, when you select an object and hold shift, matching objects will be highlighted with a lower opacity border. To select these matching objects, you can click the icon “Select matching layers” in the top right corner (shortcut Mac: ⌥⌘A or Windows: Alt + Ctrl + A).

You can read more about this in the Figma Learn resource page.

Hope this helps. :)

 


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