Beadpatterns Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 This is driving me crazy. I am trying to select multiple items on the page and it should work by selecting and then holding shift + click. However, when I press shift while in the move tool, it changes to a hand and turns it into the view tool! I can't find anything on the web to help me fix this. I have looked at all the preferences, hoping it was a keyboard shortcut that was wrong, but I have found nothing. All tutorials show that you can select multiple images/text/etc. by holding down shift, but this does not work for me. I can multiple select by dragging a box around the images or selecting on the layers panel, but I want to be able to select images that aren't necessarily next to each other in an easy way. Old programs used to let me use Ctrl + click, but that doesn't work either. Please help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 What OS do you use? Which Affinity application does this happen in? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beadpatterns Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 I have Windows 10 Pro and I mostly use Publisher, but noticed it does the same thing in the other 2 programs as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Thanks. All I can say is that my Affinity applications do not act that way. Pressing Shift while in the Move Tool does not change tools. That sounds like a keyboard issue, or perhaps you're also accidentally pressing the space bar (which would switch to the View Tool temporarily). Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beadpatterns Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 Yes! That's exactly what I was doing:( I guess I was having a "senior moment" and confused the two. Geesh! Silly, but I'm glad you suggested it. I appreciate you pointing that out to me! Thank you:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 You're welcome Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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