Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!burchil From: burchil@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Andrew Burchill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: What System 7 Does For You: A summary. Message-ID: <1991May10.214431.6266@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 10 May 91 21:44:31 GMT References: <9348@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 22 In yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) writes: >In article <9348@idunno.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes: >> ... the ability to move through files in Finder windows by typing >> their names and using the arrow keys and Tab key, > This is a great feature, but it reminds me of the problem in 6.0.x > in which you cannot drag select files if you are using View "as > Name". I know you can Shift-Click on each file you want to select, > but cannot drag select (i.e. drag rectangle to enclose selection in > view "as Icon" or "as Small Icon"). > > Is there a way to EASILY select multiple files when you are viewing > files "as Name"? > =Mike >-- >== Michael K. Yee -+- OSF/Motif Team >== Open Software Foundation - 11 Cambridge Center - Cambridge, MA 02142 In system 7.0 you will be able to drag select when viewing by name. If there is a free line I think you can drag select in name veiw in systerm 6.0x >== "Live simply, so that others may simply live."