Selecting Multiple Items in a List
Many of the screens you will see in DMB display lists. The
Organizer, for example, displays lists of teams, players, parks and
other items in your database. The transfer features display lists
of games, manager profiles and transactions that can be transferred
to another computer. The schedule editor displays a list of games
in the schedule.
In many cases, you want to select only one item and do something
(view it or modify it, for example). But there are some DMB
commands, such as transfers and deletions, that can act on a group
of selected items. These group operations can save you a lot of
time.
To select the items for a group operation, DMB uses these
standard Windows techniques for selecting multiple items from a
list:
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to select a single item, click on that
item with the left mouse button
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to select a group of neighboring items, click on the first item
with the left mouse button and release. Then hold down the
Shift key and click on the last item with
the left mouse button. This will select all of the items from the
first item to (and including) the last.
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to select a group of items that are not next to each other in
the list, hold the Ctrl key down while
clicking the left mouse button on each item. If you Ctrl-click on
an item that is not currently selected, it is added to the group of
selected items. If you Ctrl-click on an item that is in the group
of selected items, it is removed from the group.
You can combine these last two
techniques by first selecting a group of neighboring items using
Shift-click and then adding or removing individual items using
Ctrl-click.
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