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Click and Drag to Select Multiple Objects and Allow Nudge

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Shelley Smith on 10 Jul 2018 21:26:04

Similar to the other Microsoft products, it'd be great if we could click and drag the mouse to select multiple object on a page. Then, once multiple are selected, allow us to nudge them with the arrow keys all at the same time. Right now, we have to click one at a time and nudge one at a time. Oftentimes, I have many items I've already spent time aligning and then I need to nudge them and I have to do it one at a time.

Administrator on 17 Nov 2020 22:51:47

We've implemented rectangle select for visuals as of April 2020, including nudge!

Power BI Desktop April 2020 Feature Summary | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI

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harry on 05 Jul 2020 23:56:43

RE: Click and Drag to Select Multiple Objects and Allow Nudge

Additionally when dragging multiple objects, please enable guiding lines for alignment with other objects. It is also needed to move multiple selected objects with arrow keys.
In summary, we need all visual handling features the same as PowerPoint

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SamRock on 05 Jul 2020 23:46:31

RE: Click and Drag to Select Multiple Objects and Allow Nudge

Wow... Microsoft has still not acknowledge this feature! :(

Its supposed to be the most basic feature in all MS Apps

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Raymond Boone on 05 Jul 2020 23:44:38

RE: Click and Drag to Select Multiple Objects and Allow Nudge

Yes please!

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Leonardo Elmor on 05 Jul 2020 23:40:04

RE: Click and Drag to Select Multiple Objects and Allow Nudge

WOuld like to have a SELECT ALL on a page for objects or draw an area (like PowerPoint) and select all the objects within that area.

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Raphael da Rocha on 05 Jul 2020 23:29:32

RE: Click and Drag to Select Multiple Objects and Allow Nudge

You can click on one, hold the CTRL and click on all the others that you want, after keep all selected, you can click on one of that and nudge, all the visuals selected Will be moved too

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:24:20

RE: Click and Drag to Select Multiple Objects and Allow Nudge

Adding to this concept, when multiple visuals selected allowing snap to grid to still function when moving the selected visuals