Select hidden objects

[Eddy-2]

Designer 2.0.4

I'm looking at a blank document. When I draw a selection rectangle around it, nothing appears.

However, I know that it contains 15 hidden rectangles.

How do I select those with the selection rectangle to toggle their visibility in one go rather than going through the layers list and doing it individually?

[PaulEC]

14 minutes ago, Eddy-2 said:

How do I select those rectangles to toggle their visibility in one go rather than going through the layers list and doing it individually?

Select all the layers, then click on the visibility button on one of them.

[carl123]

A few different ways but this may be the easiest

Layer > Show All

[Eddy-2]

Thanks PaulEC and carl123.

First of all, this is a simplified situation to illustrate the point.

In a real life situation, showing all would mean then hiding what I want to remain hidden, creating a similar problem.

I know the area of the document where the rectangles are and would like to draw a selection rectangle around that area to highlight the hidden objects within it.

[walt.farrell]

or Select > Select Objects > Shapes and make sure the Select Hidden Objects is enabled.

[Eddy-2]

Thanks Walt.

No problem in my simple example but in a document containing several objects which I needed to remain hidden, how would I isolate just the ones I want to make visible?

Basically, I'd like to draw a selection rectangle around a specific area of a document and highlight hidden objects within it.

[walt.farrell]

8 minutes ago, Eddy-2 said:

but in a document containing several objects which I needed to remain hidden, how would I isolate just the ones I want to make visible?

You would select them in the Layers panel. Or, when you design them, you would give their layers a common name, or a common tag, so you can select them that way.

One purpose of Hiding an object is to make sure you can't select it from the canvas/workspace, and that's why you can't select it with a marquee selection, I believe.

[Eddy-2]

Thanks again Walt.

My question was basically hypothetical since most of the time I use groups and layers to simplify what I do.