Selecting top-level keywords in LR3

[Photokin]

I'm using hierarchical keywords in LR3.  If I select a top-level keyword, all the pictures with child keywords are displayed.  I need to select just the photos with a top-level keyword.  Is there a way?
-=RAP=-

[johnbeardy]

Not easily.

You can use the filter panel. Set the first column as keywords and select the top-level keyword. Expand that keyword's hierarchy (there's a little tick in the column's mini menu. Then select all the child keywords. Now select all the visible images - ie those which have child keywords assigned - and click the parent keyword again. This now means all those child keyword images are selected, so choose Edit > Invert Selection. And you're done.

John

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[peterkrogh]

One other method:
Show the keywords as a flat list in the Filter Bar.  That should only show the images assigned to the top-level keyword, and none of the images that are child-only keywords.
Peter

[johnbeardy]

Hm.

John

[Photokin]

Thanks, John and Peter.  Neither method worked for me.  I tried another approach.  I created a smart collection in which keywords contain the top-level keyword, and exclude each of the second-level child keywords.  While my keyword list (on the right of the LR3 screen) indicates 37 of approximately 4,000 pictures with the top-level keyword, the smart collection showed none.  This leads me to wonder how the keyword list does its calculations.
~Richard