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1 hour ago, Tom W. said:

Tools > Custom Selection...?

This works. I found the setting buried a bit. It will select them, but I still have to find the selections if they are not on the visible layer. I suppose I could narrow the selection to a layer. I have to work more on this.

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I tried it on a Data Tag with a record attached before posting the earlier comment, and it worked fine. Now and then, I can't select objects because this button was selected in the mode bar by mistake - Could that be the problem?

 

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1 hour ago, markdd said:

I tried it on a Data Tag with a record attached before posting the earlier comment, and it worked fine. Now and then, I can't select objects because this button was selected in the mode bar by mistake - Could that be the problem?

 

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That is not the problem. I cannot get it to select the data tags with the selection criteria set to Object Type. Isn't a data tag a type of object? When I use Object Type as the criteria, then only the Data Tag I click with the select similar tool is selected. None of the other data tags.

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28 minutes ago, markdd said:

I have had no problem selecting Data Tags with this tool. But it's not Data Tags that you have asked to select is it? I have found that selecting objects with the same Data Record with matching data entries will select just fine using Database records as the only criteria.

 

Try it with this file.....

Database Records criteria.vwx

 

Ok I was trying it using objects where the Record included Pop-up fields. It doesn't seem to work if there are Pop-up fields.

 

In terms of selecting Data Tags, I find that using 'Object type' as the criteria just selects Data Tags of the same style, not all the Data Tags. I kind of feel like Bruce that 'Data Tag' is the object type so why doesn't it select all Data Tags, regardless of the style?

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1 minute ago, Tom W. said:

 

Ok I was trying it using objects where the Record included Pop-up fields. It doesn't seem to work if there are Pop-up fields.

 

In terms of selecting Data Tags, I find that using 'Object type' as the criteria just selects Data Tags of the same style, not all the Data Tags. I kind of feel like Bruce that 'Data Tag' is the object type so why doesn't it select all Data Tags, regardless of the style?

I agree. I think it should.

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