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This wikiHow teaches you how to quickly select all items or text in the currently displayed window so that you can perform an action on an entire object at once.

Steps

Method 1 of 2: Use keyboard shortcuts

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   Define the items to select. These items can be in a document, web page, or even a folder in the Finder on your Mac.

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   Click anywhere on the window. Place the cursor in the window containing the text, image or file you want to select and click.

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   Press ⌘ and A same time. The ⌘ key is located on both sides of the spacebar. Everything in the active window is highlighted. Now you can move, delete, copy, or crop the highlighted items at the same time.
   • Or, you can click Edit (Edit) good View (View) is in the menu bar at the top of the screen, then select Select All (Select all).
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Method 2 of 2: Use mouse or trackpad

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   Select all files shown as icons. Open the finder window and expand it fully so you can see all the data in the given folder.
   • Place your mouse pointer in the upper left corner of the folder. Make sure the mouse pointer is over an empty space in the directory and not over any individual files.
   • Click and drag the mouse pointer to the lower right corner of the screen. All files, folders and images in between will be selected.

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   Select all files displayed in a list. Open a window or an application with its content displayed in the list view.
   • Click the first file or item in the list.
   • Hold down the key shift.
   • Click the item at the bottom of the list.
   • The entire list between the first and last item will be selected and highlighted.
   • Now you can perform actions (move, copy, cut, delete, and so on) with the entire file at once.
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