My apology to Curtis. When you wrote de-select, my DecTalk swallowed the first syllable a bit and I thought you said select. And my apology to Aman, there was no need for me to add to what Curtis had said (I didn't realize I was). Bruce -- Bruce Toews E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: water_drinker@xxxxxxxx Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net For the best oldies anywhere visit http://www.treasureislandoldies.com On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Aman Singer wrote: > My deepest apologies to all. I must be losing it. The folks here are, of > course, quite right. If one puts the cursor on an item and hits ctrl+space, > one will deselect that item. Again, sorry for the misinformation. All that > need be done when one is on the first item that one wants to select is to > hold down the control key and move around with the arrows, hitting space on > each item that needs to be selected. The rest of the instructions are > correct, but hitting ctrl+space will deselect the item under the cursor. > Aman > > > -----Original Message----- > From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf > Of Bruce Toews > Sent: December 16, 2004 2:32 AM > To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: selecting items in a list > > Actually, I believe that if you put your cursor on the first item, then > hit control and space, that item is deselected. > > Bruce > > -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx