You can bind H to "selection floater" rather than "select by name" - I believe you can't use the selection floater to link things or other instances where you are picking a target for something, those are situations where you still want to use "select by name" I'm still on 2009 and haven't used the later versions, it's…
Yeah I loved 2008 and 2009. After that I had to work in maya. Now I try to go back to 2012 max and I'm pulling my hair out. I didn't know about selection floater. Will have to check it out! Thanks! It just gets messy with 50 different modular objects in the scene and having to open the (H) menu (which hangs for a few…