How to Select Non-Adjacent Items

You often see a number of items on the screen that you want to treat the same: you want to delete them all, drag them to a flash drive, etc. (This technique works best if you are viewing a list as in your email.)

1. Click an item once: item will turn blue (Highlight)

2. Hold down the Ctrl (control) key on the keyboard

3. Click on each item to select (as long as the Ctrl key is pressed, each item will Highlight)

4. Release the Ctrl key

5. Perform the action. For example, pressing the delete key on the keyboard will delete all of the highlighted documents. Dragging one will drag them all.

6. To Unselect, hold down Ctrl and click again on any highlighted item