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Selecting Objects and Entering Commands
To select more than one object from the keyboard:
1 Use the cursor movement keys to select the
first object .
.2 Press <Mark>.
3 Use the cursor movement keys to select the
next object. The object that you marked
remains highlighted.
4 Continue selecting objects and marking them
until all the objects you want are
highlighted.
Typing Object Names
The third way to select objects is by typing the first
few characters of the object name. The first object
name that begins with the characters you typed becomes
highlighted.
To point to a single object, you need type only as many
letters as are needed to distinguish it from the other
objects in the display.
For example, suppose you have the following objects
displayed in a folder:
file.2
financials
forms
When you type an f, file.2 is highlighted. If you then
type an 0, the highlight is moved from file.2 to forms.
When you select from a menu, normally the system does
not distinguish between upper- and lowercase
characters. If you were to type F above, the cursor
would still move to file.2.
You can tell the system to pay attention to whether
characters are upper- or lowercase letters by typing a
>
before you type the first character.
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