# Selecting or Deselecting Files

This topic describes how to select or deselect one or more files in the workspace.
The folders are manipulated in the same manner.
This topic describes the following:

- Selecting a file
- Selecting multiple files
- Deselecting files

## Selecting a file

Procedure
1.
Click a file in the workspace to select it.
Alternatively, enter the character at the beginning of the file name while the workspace is active. A file whose name begins with the character will be selected.
You can change the selected file by pressing any of the arrow keys.

## Selecting multiple files

You can select multiple files using any of the following methods:

- Adding a file one by one
- Rubberbanding
- Adding files to the selection by rubberbanding
- Selecting all

### Adding a file one by one

Procedure
1.
Click a file, then click another file while pressing the <Ctrl> or <Shift> key.
Files are selected in the order they are clicked.

### Rubberbanding

Procedure
1.
When you press the left mouse button in an empty area and drag the cursor across the files, a square selection area appears. This is called a rubber band.
Files within the rubber band are selected.
Files are selected in the order that they are taken into the rubber band. If multiple files are selected simultaneously, the file closest to the starting point of the rubber band is selected first.

### Adding files to the selection by rubberbanding

Procedure
1.
When one or more files are selected, you can select additional files by extending the rubber band while pressing the <Ctrl> or <Shift> key to take them in.
All of the files surrounded by the rubber band (including those previously selected) are selected.
In this case, the previously selected files are selected first and the new files are selected next in the order they were added.

### Selecting all

Procedure
1.
Select [Select All] from the [Edit] menu.
All of the files in the current folder are selected.

## Deselecting files

You can deselect the files you have selected as follows:

### Deselecting the entire selection

Procedure
1.
Click an empty area in the workspace.

### Deselecting a particular file

Procedure
1.
Click the file you want to deselect while pressing the <Ctrl> key.
Note
When you select a file, the information for the file is displayed in the status bar.