# Multi select in report designer?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-select-in-report-designer/11027>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [January 11, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-select-in-report-designer/11027 "2016-01-11T17:58:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![fledder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e19b73/32.png) [@fledder](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/fledder)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-select-in-report-designer/11027/1 "2016-01-11T17:58:57Z")

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I’m working in the Ignition 7.8 report designer, and I can’t seem to figure out how to multi select the cells in a row in a table component… tried Ctrl, Shift, Alt click, from both the WYSIWYG designer and the component tree, tried click drag. Seems to be possible because when I create a new type of row (e.g. Alternate) it shows up with all the cells selected in the property tree… I’m sure there’s something simple I’m missing?

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**Author:** ![KathyApplebaum](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kathyapplebaum/32/7261_2.png) [@KathyApplebaum](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/KathyApplebaum)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-select-in-report-designer/11027/2 "2016-01-11T19:29:43Z")

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What are you trying to do that you need to multi-select cells? There might be another way to accomplish what you want.

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**Author:** ![fledder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e19b73/32.png) [@fledder](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/fledder)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-select-in-report-designer/11027/3 "2016-01-11T19:31:18Z")

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Trying to apply border styles to all the cells. I can apply a border to the row, but that’s just the outside of the row, it doesn’t add a border in between the cells. Also, alignment or font size changes are a bit painful in a 9-column table…

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**Author:** ![KathyApplebaum](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kathyapplebaum/32/7261_2.png) [@KathyApplebaum](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/KathyApplebaum)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-select-in-report-designer/11027/4 "2016-01-11T19:42:05Z")

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😊 Looks like we implemented multi-select to edit properties for things like rectangles, but not table cells.

I’ll make a ticket. Sorry!

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**Author:** ![fledder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e19b73/32.png) [@fledder](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/fledder)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-select-in-report-designer/11027/5 "2016-01-11T21:40:54Z")

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Hey, no worries. It’s much less frustrating when you have a responsive vendor… I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten “works as designed” for stuff like this from other places. Thanks!