Windows Highlighting Out of Sequence Files
In the previous lesson "Windows Highlighting Sequential Files" you made two folders "Test One" and "Test Two." In folder "Test One" you created five text documents or files named "One, Two, Three, Four and Five." You learned how to highlight by pressing and holding down the Shift key and hitting the down or up arrow key to highlight more than one file. You learned that if you released the Shift key and just arrowed the highlight would go off of the group of highlighted files, and onto the file that you arrowed to. Another thing you practiced was unhighlighting the file you were on by pressing and holding down the Control key and hitting the Spacebar. There will be many times when you need to highlight more than one file in a folder that are not in sequence, or one after the other. You might have one file at the top of the list, one in the middle of the list, and one at the bottom of the list that needs highlighted. To highlight files that are out of sequence, up or down arrow to the first file you want to highlight. Press and hold down the Control key and down arrow to the next file you want to highlight. Hit the Spacebar one time to highlight that file. Keep the Control key held down. Down arrow to the next file you want to be highlighted and hit the Spacebar one time. Do this until you have all of the files you want highlighted. If you are not at the computer where you made the "Test One" and "Test Two" folder, and the files in the "Test One" folder, do the lesson "Windows Highlighting Sequential Files" first on the computer you are now at, and then come back to this lesson. Do the following activity to practice highlighting files that are out of sequence. There are headings and an audio demonstration link on this page. Use the letter h to move forward through the headings or Shift h to move backward through the headings. When you hear a heading you want to read through, use your down arrow key or "read all" key command. When you are finished, move to the link at the bottom of this page titled "BACK" to go to the "Simple Windows Lessons" web page.
1. Press and hold down the Windows key and hit the letter e to open Windows File Explorer.
2. Press and hold down the Shift key and hit the Tab key again-and-again until you get to the "Tree View." (be patient and listen to your screen reader!)
3. Up arrow to the "Libraries" area.
4. Hit the Enter key one time to make the "Libraries" area active.
5. Right arrow one time to open the "Libraries" item. Then down arrow to the "Documents" item, right arrow, then down arrow to "My Documents" and hit right arrow.
6. Down arrow to the folder "Test One."
7. Hit the Enter key one time to make the "Test One" folder active.
8. Hit the Tab key again-and-again until you get to the "List View" for the "Test One" folder. (be patient and listen to your screen reader!)
9. You should be on the "Five" document at the top of the file list. Press and hold down the Control key and hit the Spacebar one time. If it says that it is not highlighted, keep the Control key down and hit the Spacebar a second time.
10. With the Control key still held down, down arrow to the "One" file and hit the Spacebar one time. You now have highlighted out of sequence, the "Five" and "One" files.
11. Keep the Control key held down and down arrow to the "Two" file at the bottom of the list.
12. With the Control key still held down hit the Spacebar one time on the "Two" file to highlight it. You have now highlighted the "Five, One and Two" files out of sequence. The "Four" and "Three" files which were between the files you highlighted, were not highlighted.
13. Release the Control key.
14. Up arrow to the "Five" file. It is automatically highlighted.
15. Press and hold down the Control key and down arrow to the "Three" file.
16. Hit the Spacebar one time and you have both the "Five" and the "Three" files highlighted. The "Four, One and Two" files are not highlighted.
17. Release the Control key.
18. Down arrow to the "Two" file at the bottom of the list of files. It is now the only file highlighted.
19. Press and hold down the Control key and up arrow to the "Four" file.
20. With the Control key still held down, hit the Spacebar one time on the "Four" file. You now have the "Two and Four" files highlighted.
21. Release the Control key.
22. Up arrow to the "Five" file and it will be the only file highlighted.
23. Press and hold down the Control key and down arrow one time to the "Four" file.
24. With the Control key still held down, hit the Spacebar one time to highlight the "Four" file. You now have the "Five and Four" files highlighted.
25. With the Control key still held down, down arrow to the "Three" file.
26. With the Control key still held down, hit the Spacebar one time on the "Three" file. You now have the "Five, Four and Three" files highlighted.
27. Practice the steps above until you understand, and are quick and accurate.
28. Press Alt F4 to close the Windows File Explorer.
Audio Demonstration for Highlighting Out of Sequence Files in a Folder