: Most direct way to select the innermost group on Illustrator I have multiple groups of shapes in a hierarchy that goes several levels deep. Something like this: Layer 1 Group 1

@Merenda852

As pointed out in the answer and comments by @joojaa , Illustrator doesn't support such feature, so one would have to write a script for this.

The following is a simple script for selecting the parent group of the current selection. There might be a couple of corner cases I didn't check but it works for me. Also the steps in this answer describe how to run the script with a keyboard shortcut.

SelectParent.jsx

// Select the parent of the current selection

if ( app.documents.length > 0 ) {
var doc = app.activeDocument;

if ( typeof doc.selection[0] !== 'undefined') {
var parent = doc.selection[0].parent;

if ( parent !== doc.selection[0] && typeof parent.layer !== 'undefined') {
doc.selection = parent;
}
}
}


I didn't need Illustrator to load the script from the Scripts folder, but in case it's needed, the script has to be copied to that folder and its location depends on the version and platform used.

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@Vandalay110

Select it with the layers panel. Only normal selection will mark the layer not select it you need to select it with the round dot next to the object name.

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