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Computers 101

Selection Tricks

Today's "Tip of the Day" requires some selection savvy, so I'm dispensing with the normal Q&A and doing a section on multiple selection tactics:

If you want to select files that are in order:

Click the first one, hold down your SHIFT key, then click the last one.
Everything in between will be highlighted.

Here's a sample with Outlook Express:

OR

You can "lasso" items. Just click your left mouse button, hold it down, then drag to "lasso" the files you want selected. Note that this works with Explorer, but not most list boxes.

If the files are NOT in order:

What do you do if the files aren't in consecutive order? Hold down your CTRL key as you click the files you want selected.

Another example using Outlook Express:

Open My Computer, head to your C: drive, and give it a try on some files.

Note that if you have your computer set for single-click opening, you won't actually want to click any files to highlight them. Just hover your mouse over them and they will become selected (almost like magic).

Tip of the Day

File Sizes & Counts

Web Link - http://www.worldstart.com/tips/filesizeandcount.htm

Have you ever wondered how much space a set of files takes up? Or how many files were in a folder? Well, here's how to figure it out.

If you're interested in the number of files in a folder and / or the total size fo the folder, just right-click it and select Properties from the resulting menu.

OK, that was a fairly well known trick. But what if you have a bunch of files in a folder and need to know the combined size of seven of them?

You could right-click each one, select Properties, and then add up all the sizes.

However, a better way would be to highlight all seven files in question, right-click them, and select Properties.

That will give you a combined file size of just those seven files.

If they're not in order, remember the CTRL key selection trick mentioned in the Computers 101 section.

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