Whether it’s some documents you’re trying to back up to a disk, a bunch of MP3s you’re transferring to your MP3 player, or some pictures you want to send to a mail recipient, there are times you want to select, or highlight, multiple files. To make the task easier, don’t forget to take advantage of your Ctrl and Shift keys while highlighting.
In order to select consecutive items, just click on the first file you want to highlight then press and hold down your Shift key until you click on the last file you want to highlight. Now the whole group, whether it’s three files or three thousand, are selected.
If you’re highlighting nonconsecutive files just press and hold down on the Ctrl key while you select whatever files you want (don’t let go until you’re done).
And if you want to just select all files in a folder, go to Edit on the toolbar on top of the open folder and then click “Select All”.
