If you take a look on the toolbar, the selection tools are illustrated below:

1. Selection Tool (Black Arrow)
By clicking on the selection tool


2. Direct Selection tool (white arrow)
If you want to edit an individual anchor point then you may click on the direct selection tool



Notice that if you click in the orange fill of the circle and not on an individual anchor point, then you select the entire shape. Also note that when you hover above a point, then this point is highlighted to help you click on this point directly.
3. Group Selection tool
Have a look at the following image.

Select the Group Selection tool


Thus, you can quickly edit all members of the group, let's say change the fill or stroke.
Note: There is a keyboard shortcut that allows you to switch from the direct selection tool to the Group selection tool. With the direct selection tool selected, press and hold ALT. As long as you hold ALT you switch to the Group Selection Tool.
4. Magic Wand Tool
The Magic Wand tool

Imagine we have a set of circles of various colour fills.



One of the probable reasons that you have not made an accurate selection of circles with 'exactly the same' fill might be the value in the Tolerance field. If this is too high, then the accuracy of selection falls down. The lower the value, the more accurate selection you get. So try and put a tolerance of e.g. 5 and click on a red circle again. Now Illustrator should select circles with a fill colour that is 'exactly the same' or i would rather say very very close to the one you chose.
As you might have already noticed, the selection we make with the wand tool is by default based on the Fill Color. Other selection rules are also available. Let's say you wanted to select the three circles with the 3pt red stroke. Click on the Stroke Weight Check box and zero the tolerance.

5. Lasso Tool
Another useful selection tool is the Lasso tool

Say you want to select the following circles. Instead of selecting one by one and add to selection, you may click on the lasso tool, click and drag until you enclose all the circles of interest and you let go.

Note: If you have already made a selection and you hold the Shift Key pressed and Lasso select another object, then this is added to the initial selection. If you hold the Alt Key and Lasso select a already selected object, then this is deselected from the initial selection.
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