Selecting Multiple Pages in a Spread Using Shift Click Deselects the Last Page if Selecting in Reverse Order

[Hangman]

A really minor one on Mac only...Page selection in chronological order is not an issue...

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a facing-page Publisher document with three or an odd number of pages
2. Select pages 2 and 3
3. Shift-click and select page 1
4. Page 3 is deselected

[Oufti]

If you want to select pages in reverse order, you have to click first in the odd (right) page thumbnail then shift-click on any page before, so the whole last spread will be selected. 

(It sounds quite logical for me, at least a really minor issue as you say.)

[Hangman]

13 minutes ago, Oufti said:

If you want to select pages in reverse order, you have to click first in the odd (right) page thumbnail then shift-click on any page before, so the whole last spread will be selected. 

Just highlighting it because that step isn't required on Windows and shouldn't be required on Mac but yes, that does work...

[MikeTO]

I believe this is by design because it's the macOS standard for Shift+clicking in a list or array. Selecting files in Finder using list view and selecting cells in Numbers work the same way.

The original macOS standard for extending a selection prior to the iOS-ification of macOS was:

• Text selection - Shift + Click always extended the selection
• Array or list - Shift + Click always selected from the original start point to the click position - it wouldn't extend in both directions

Affinity does not adhere the class macOS text selection standard but it's not surprising given the confusing muddle that is macOS these days. For example, type a paragraph in Pages or Mail and:

1. Click in the middle of the text
2. Shift+Click after the cursor position to extend the selection forward
3. Shift+Click before the original cursor position to extend the selection backward - the text will be added to the selection

But if you repeat the test with Notes or TextEdit (or Affinity, Adobe, or MS Word), you'll find the text selected in step 2 will become deselected. This isn't the way Mac apps are supposed to work. The ship has probably sailed on this standard but it would be nice if Apple could at least make all their text editing apps work consistently.