: Illustrator: Selecting all objects across x axis Ok so I got this huge document, about 1.5 x 1.2 metters and because I was working a little bit fast the aligning of some elements wasn't pixel

@Murray976

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Ok so I got this huge document, about 1.5 x 1.2 metters and because I was working a little bit fast the aligning of some elements wasn't pixel perfect but is more or less accurate.
Now that I've finished setting all this elements I want to align them so they are all placed correctly. The problem I'm experiencing now is that the elements are too small so when I zoom out to select them is not really easy and most of the times I select elements that I don't want to select.

Here is a zoomed example of the document, what I want is to select all pink dots and allign them with the blue one. Nothing really difficult with align tool the problem is the size of the document itself.



But when I zoom the whole document out this is what I get.



and without guides it seems this way



I belive this could be achieved via scripting, but I don't know so much about it. What I want is for example select a blue dot and then run a script for selecting everhing that matches its y position so I can just align to that key object.

Edit: What I need to do is something like this.

Imagine I have a selection like this one


And I want to expand it only in x position through all the document like this one


The distributing horizontally is great but vertically they are not correctly aligned. Blue ones are in place but some red/pink ones are missplaced by some pixels and need to fix that. I hope this clarifies a little bit the question

Any help will be appreciated, thanks for your time.

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