Selecting from lists

Where you can only select one item, the input focus is shown by a solid box. Where you can select several items, the input focus is shown by a dashed box.

Action

Keyboard Shortcut

Select the item or action that has the input focus.

Spacebar

Select multiple adjacent items in a list.

Spacebar to select first item, then Shift+↓ (down arrow) to select the other items

Select each item without deselecting previously selected items.

Spacebar to select first item, then ↓ (down arrow) to next item and Spacebar to select

Deselect the item with the input focus in a multiple selection list.

Spacebar

Select all items in a multiple selection list that has the input focus.

Ctrl+/ (forward slash)

Deselect all items in the multiple selection list that has the input focus.

Ctrl+\ (backward slash)