Selecting Multiple Files in Microsoft Windows

Video Transcript

"Hi! I’m Ross. Thanks for visiting expertvillage.com. What can we do with computer files? Let’s find out. How do you select multiple files? When you are going to copy or move files, sometimes as you want to do it on more than one file at a time. The operation that you’re going to perform happens on the files that are highlighted. Right now, no files or folders are highlighted here. I can click one by selecting it with my left mouse button. I can select a different one. Once I decide which one I want, then I can execute the operation. For instance, if I want to copy I could right click, go down to copy, and select it. If I want to copy let’s say three files; this first one, the third one, and the next one. After I clicked the first one, hold down the control key and select the next one, and the next one. And go, oh, you know what, I didn’t want the middle one. While still holding down the control key, select that file and it will remove it from the list to be operated on. If you want to do a range, then you could select the first file, and then when you select the last file in the range, hold down the shift key first, and it does the range. So again, if I select this one I’ll hold down the shift key and left click again, and it does the whole range. I can go ahead and move all these files by simply dragging up to letters, let’s say, releasing, and saying move and the files all moved up there. I can also highlight by using the mouse pointer and dragging and it creates a bounding box. Whatever name it touches, it highlights. "