How to select a range of items on OSX

[mrochester]

Hi all

I'm trying to highlight a range of items on OSX and I can't seem to find or figure out the key combo for this (probably because I don't know what search term to use in Google). On Windows if you highlight something, then press and hold the Ctrl key while clicking another item, it hightlights both items and everything in between. How do you do the same thing in OSX?

Many thanks

Michael

EDIT - Scrap this, I've found out you have to be in list view for this to work and that it doesn't work when in icon view. Thanks anyway!

 

[Hellhammer]

One way of doing that is to select one of them and then use shift + arrow keys to select the other ones. Maybe not exactly what you meant but pretty similar

 

[mr.tolgao]

while pressing "Command" key, select the items.

 

[mrochester]

while pressing "Command" key, select the items.

That just does one item at a time rather than a range. Anyway, as above, switching to list mode and holding down the shift key whilst clicking is the solution.

 

[fswmacguy]

Click the first item, hold Shift, click the last item, release Shift. This will select the first item, the last item, and all items in between.

Click the first item, hold Command, click other items, release Command. This will select only the items you've clicked and not all the items in between. You can hold Command and click on a selected item to deselect it without deselecting the other selected items.

 

[mrochester]

Click the first item, hold Shift, click the last item, release Shift. This will select the first item, the last item, and all items in between.

Click the first item, hold Command, click other items, release Command. This will select only the items you've clicked and not all the items in between. You can hold Command and click on a selected item to deselect it without deselecting the other selected items.

Correct, but that doesn't work in icon view.

 

[cgm707]

I can't believe there isn't a way to select a range of icons in Finder. Sometimes I need to see the icon to make the right selection.

 

[roadbloc]

Click and drag one of them transparent boxy things over the files. If you understand what I mean by that.

 

[cgm707]

Click and drag one of them transparent boxy things over the files. If you understand what I mean by that.

No.

 

[Kellie2609]

Selecting a range

Hi, I'm new to Mac and needed this question answered also. I kind of figured it out by mistake. I had a bunch of photo files just in an ordinary folder, I changed the view from tiles to a list view. There's a button up the top. Then I simply clicked and held the mouse button down and dragged down to the range I wanted selected and it worked. I tried the square over the tiles thing but I had one file in that range that I didn't want selected. The list made it a whole lot easier.