You’ve been busy creating a beautiful illustration using all the colors in your favorite blanket from when you were a kid.  When you mom finally sends it to you in the mail you realize the shade of purple that you were remembering was was actually brown!  It would take you hours to go back and change all the little details you made in the wrong color.  Here is an easy way to select multiple object that share common characteristics, such as color.

We start with a simple design with a few colors used repeatedly throughout the design.

Design Before

Choose one color that you would like to change.  I am going to update the purple dots in the design above and make them brown.  Select any object that has the fill color that you want to update.  Once it appears as the fill color in your toolbox, go to Select > Same > Fill Color.

Select Menu

Now all of the object that are your chosen fill color should be selected.

Purple Dots Selected

 Now all you have to do is select a new fill color from your Color Palette and, VIOLA….all of the selected objects will be updated!

Design After

You can use this simple methond for selecting objects with the same fill color, stroke color, stroke width and even opacity.  A very handy tool indeed!