How to highlight or select multiple files

In Windows system and its applications, many times you need to highlight or select multiple items. If you manually select one by one, you will be tired if there are hundreds of items. For instance, your mailbox is flooded with spam mails and you want to select them for deletion, you will need to know the shortcuts to make things easier.

Select All Command:

In any folder, choose Select All from the Edit menu. It’s the same with Windows Explorer.

Using shortcut: CTRL A

Select items in order:

If files or folders in order, and you want to highlight part of them such as from top to middle, you can hold down the left mouse button on the side of the first item and move the mouse down until to the last item you want to select.

Using shortcut:  Hold down the SHIFT key to highlight the first item, and then use the mouse to click the last item to select.

Select random items:

Hold down the CTRL key and use the left mouse button to select it, keep doing this until you finish choosing all items.

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