Barry, you are a genius. Thanks for connecting this to the Output Preview. I never would have made this connection. The Output Preview tool, will create an annotation with the same information it displayed in the dialog, when the shift key is held down while clicking. That annotation is green, and it has the "Text Note" icon. This is a way to get the information from the Output Preview dialog into your document if you need to keep it around.
I actually don't know if this is documented anywhere, a quick search in the documentation did not turn up anything, but I can find a number of people who think it's a bad idea because it's overriding the normal shift key behavior for a multi-item selection. There is nothing I am aware of to turn this feature off besides closing the output preview window.
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