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2.3. Selecting Icons

To highlight a single icon in preparation for printing, opening, duplicating, or deleting, click the

icon once. (In a list or column view, as described in Chapter 1, you can also click on any visible

piece of information about that file—its size, kind, date modified, and so on.) Both the icon and

the name darken in a uniquely Leopardish way.

Tip: You can change the color of the oval highlighting that appears around the name of a

selected icon. Choose System Preferences, click Appearance, and use the Highlight

Color pop-up menu.)

Figure 2-3. You can highlight several icons simultaneously by dragging a box around them. To do so, drag

from outside of the target icons diagonally across them (right), creating a translucent gray rectangle as you

go. Any icons or icon names touched by this rectangle are selected when you release the mouse. If you press

the Shift or key as you do this, any previously highlighted icons remain selected.

That much may seem obvious. But most first-time Mac users have no idea how to manipulate

more than one icon at a time—an essential survival skill in a graphic interface like the Mac's.

2.3.1. Selecting by Clicking

To highlight multiple files in preparation for moving or copying, use one of these techniques:

• To highlight all the icons. To select all the icons in a window, press -A (the

equivalent of the Edit Select All command).

• To highlight several icons by dragging. You can drag diagonally to highlight a group of

nearby icons, as shown in Figure 2-3. In a list view, in fact, you don't even have to drag

over the icons themselves—your cursor can touch any part of any file's row, like its

modification date or file size.