Keyboard and mouse
As described in ???Who Doesn??™t Love Keyboard Shortcuts?,??? earlier in
this chapter, you can hold the Ctrl key to select files one-by-one, or hold
the Shift key to select a range of files. Just be careful not to drag the files
while holding Ctrl, lest you inadvertently create copies of them all.
Keyboard alone
While holding the Ctrl key, move through a list of files with the up and
down arrow keys. When the dotted rectangle surrounds a file you want,
press the Space bar to select it.
Or, to select a range of files, use the arrow keys to find the first file; then,
hold Shift while you expand the selection with the arrow keys. Thereafter,
you can even use the Ctrl key to select and deselect individual items.
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Shell Tweaks
Filespec
In the Search box in the top-right of the Explorer window, type a
filespec??”a pattern you choose??”to filter the list and show only the
matching files. Filespecs typically contain ordinary characters (letters
and numbers) along with wildcards, like the question mark (?) and the
asterisk (*), which represent any single character or any number of characters,
respectively.
For instance, type *.txt to show only files with the .txt filename extension,
or v??.* to show files of any type that start with v and have only
three letters in the filename.
In a moment or two, Windows Explorer will show only the files that
match your filespec, at which point you can press Ctrl-A to select them
all.
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