how do you show selected mesh in blender's outliner? I click on a mesh in the graphical window, and I see the mesh gets highlighted. I go to look at the Blender outliner and I cannot find the mesh. My blender file has 700+ components, and I cannot find the graphically selected object in the outliner. Is there a way to have the outliner automatically scroll to the selected mesh?
I see that there is a similar question answered on this website, but I do not have a number pad to use that answer, so I do not know how to use that solution. Is there a method to find the mesh in the outliner using the mouse, or some other alternative? I see this question as well, but that does not address the issue I am running into.
It is possible to filter the displayed objects in the Outliner by their state. Click on the filter icon and change the object state filter to Selected. The outliner should now only display the selected objects.


If the particular objects are deeply nested in collections and you don't want to step through the hierarchy, disable the Collection filter checkbox. This will display the objects without their collection hierarchy, just one after the other in the outliner.