Swathe Select - tip on feature not requested

[Papoulka]

I was gearing up to put in a request for what might be called "swathe select". That is, the ability to easily select multiple groups of files. I thought it would be a really cool new feature for XY.

However, fooling around with keystrokes showed it's already there, and in Windows Explorer too. The odd thing is that "nobody" seems to know about it. Meaning that I didn't (not a strong test...) and much more surprisingly I find no mention on the web.

Anyway, FWIW here's the method:

Left-click to select the first item of an intended group.
Hold Shift and select the last item. The group will be highlighted.

Hold Ctrl and select the first item of the second intended group.
[now the special bit...]
Hold Ctrl & Shift and select the last item of the second intended group.
Both groups will be highlighted.

Apologies if y'all knew this before, but I was tickled to find it.

[avsfan]

Didn't know this one -- very cool! Thanks for sharing!

[PeterH]

...hold Ctrl and click a file in the middle of a selected group: it will be deselected.

[Marco]

I was gearing up to put in a request for what might be called "swathe select". That is, the ability to easily select multiple groups of files. I thought it would be a really cool new feature for XY.

However, fooling around with keystrokes showed it's already there, and in Windows Explorer too. The odd thing is that "nobody" seems to know about it. Meaning that I didn't (not a strong test...) and much more surprisingly I find no mention on the web.

Anyway, FWIW here's the method:

Left-click to select the first item of an intended group.
Hold Shift and select the last item. The group will be highlighted.

Hold Ctrl and select the first item of the second intended group.
[now the special bit...]
Hold Ctrl & Shift and select the last item of the second intended group.
Both groups will be highlighted.

Apologies if y'all knew this before, but I was tickled to find it.

Didn't know that, thanks for sharing!
And I just did some tests... you can repeat the second part as many times as you want!

[highend]

This is standard Windows (explorer) behavior since ... forever. Even Windows XP had it

[PeterH]

This is standard Windows (explorer) behavior since ... forever. Even Windows XP had it

I'd bet Win 3.1, too?

Though:
- I can't really remember
- not everyone here was with it that time

[bdeshi]

and not just Windows...