# Shift+Click to select multiple topics as in Gmail

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/shift-click-to-select-multiple-topics-as-in-gmail/206497>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** completed, bulk-actions\
**Created:** [October 19, 2021, 10:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shift-click-to-select-multiple-topics-as-in-gmail/206497 "2021-10-19T22:53:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![meglio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/meglio/32/71444_2.png) [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 5:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shift-click-to-select-multiple-topics-as-in-gmail/206497/11 "2021-11-26T05:17:30Z")

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Wait, there is quite a difference between “select all” and “shift-select”. “Select all” can select many more items than I need, while shift-select A-B only selects all items starting from A and up to and including B. Like, if I’m trying to select 20 topics from A to B while 100+ are shown, “select all” will select 100 topics while I only need 20 topics to be selected.

Also, testing in Firefox for MacOS, Shift+Select does nothing for me.

Would you consider implementing Shift+Select? Whenever I select multiple topics, I feel like it’s lacking this functionality, and I keep forgetting it does not work this way in Discourse - because it works this way everywhere else, so the intuition is to use it whenever I want to select all items between A and B.

> [@JonathanShaw](#):
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> The shift-click paradigm is usually for selecting things that are not checkboxes; checkboxes conventionally allow multiple selection without shift.

Just wanted to add a note that in Windows, even with checkboxes ON in the file list view, you can still select all files between A and B by clicking FileA+Shift+FileB. Same in MacOS. It’s a UI convention everywhere.

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