How to Select (Quickly) Only Some Items in a List

It happens all the time: There’s a list of files. You want to move or delete some of them, but not all.

Obviously, you can click one to select it. But how about two? How about all but two? Surely there’s a faster way.

Here’s the basic trick. Click the first icon. Then, while pressing Shift, click the last one. You’ve just selected all the files in between your clicks.

At this point, you can un-select the ones you don’t want—by clicking with the Command key down (the cloverleaf key on the Mac) or the Ctrl key (on a Windows machine).

You can get your work done much faster—and then get home earlier!

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Adapted from Pogue’s Basics, Flatiron Books. Order here.