Common Desktop Environment: Style Guide and Certification Checklist

Selecting and Deselecting All Elements

 

n/a 

 

 

 

Required 

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In a collection that uses multiple, range, or discontiguous selection, Control+/ selects all the elements in the collection, places the anchor at the beginning of the collection, and leaves the location cursor at its previous position.  

Control+/ provides the user with a convenient means of selecting all of the objects in a collection. 

Required 

4-27: 

In a collection that is in add mode, Control+\ deselects all the elements in the collection. In a collection that is in normal mode, Control+\ deselects all the elements in the collection, except the element with the location cursor if the location cursor is being displayed. In either mode, Control+\ leaves the location cursor at its current position and moves the anchor to the location cursor.  

Control+\ allows the user to deselect all of the selected objects quickly and uniformly.