Select several items at once

Work with several items together

You can select many items and move, resize or act on them as one.

Ways to select more than one item

1. With Select (V) active, drag a box across the canvas. Everything the box touches gets selected.
   • If you start the box outside any board, boards it touches are selected as a whole.
   • If you start the box inside a board, you select the items inside that board.
2. Hold Shift and click items to add them to (or remove them from) the selection.
3. Inside a board: click one file, then Shift-click another file in the same board. Every file between the two (in the board's order) gets selected.
4. Press Cmd/Ctrl + A to select everything.

Once selected, drag any selected item to move the whole group, or drag a corner of the selection box to resize them together.

Buttons that appear above a selection

When two or more items are selected, a small bar appears above the selection. What it shows depends on where the items are.

Items on the open canvas (not inside a board):

• Convert to Board: puts the selected items into a new board, keeping their positions. Needs 2 or more items.
• Tidy up: lines up the items evenly. Needs 3 or more items that are not locked.

Files inside the same board:

• Set status: gives every selected file the same review status.
• Move to board: moves the files to another board. If there is none, the list says No other boards.
• Download: downloads every selected file that can be downloaded, one after the other.

Convert to Board and Tidy up are also in the right-click menu.

Who can do this

• Everyone can select items.
• Moving, resizing, Convert to Board, Tidy up, Move to board and Download need Owner or Can edit.
• Set status is available to Owner, Can edit and Can review.

Good to know:

• When you add two or more files at once, they are laid out in a grid and left selected, so you can move them or turn them into a board right away.
• Each of these actions can be undone with Cmd/Ctrl + Z.
• The bar is hidden while you are drawing, typing or dragging; it comes back when you stop.