Open the Document Info palette.
From its flyout menu, turn on Selection Only and Objects.
The palette will not remember those settings. You have to re-select them every time you relaunch Illustrator.
The Document Info palette is a half-baked hack, tagged-on to display a subset of the information in the normally-hidden programmer's window, instead of incorporating the data properly into the program's interface. So it's another completely unintuitive grab-bag of important information that everyone needs, but no one would expect to look for there.
JET
