# Why did no-one mention shift-click on a node to select all connected nodes
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/why-did-no-one-mention-shift-click-on-a-node-to-select-all-connected-nodes/53981
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**Created:** [19 November 2021 08:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/why-did-no-one-mention-shift-click-on-a-node-to-select-all-connected-nodes/53981 "2021-11-19T08:00:13Z")
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### Author:  [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)
#### Post date: [19 November 2021 08:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/why-did-no-one-mention-shift-click-on-a-node-to-select-all-connected-nodes/53981/1 "2021-11-19T08:00:13Z")
.. oh wait - they did..
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but buried it beyond my attention span š
I don't know what I'm going to do with all the time I'm going to save from now on! š
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### Author:  [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)
#### Post date: [19 November 2021 11:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/why-did-no-one-mention-shift-click-on-a-node-to-select-all-connected-nodes/53981/2 "2021-11-19T11:22:43Z")
Left and right shift click both get confused if there is more than one route between two nodes
(Node-Red 2.1.3)
Right shift click on switch works, left or right on change 1 or 2 selects the whole flow.
Selecting all with shift click is not a feature I would use much, I'm used to CTRL A selecting everything, across multiple applications.
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### Author:  [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)
#### Post date: [19 November 2021 11:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/why-did-no-one-mention-shift-click-on-a-node-to-select-all-connected-nodes/53981/3 "2021-11-19T11:23:48Z")
> [@jbudd](#):
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> Right shift click on switch works, left or right on change 1 or 2 selects the whole flow.
Please do raise an issue if something isn't working right - you can't guarantee we'll see bug reports in replies to topics.
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### Author:  [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)
#### Post date: [19 November 2021 11:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/why-did-no-one-mention-shift-click-on-a-node-to-select-all-connected-nodes/53981/4 "2021-11-19T11:39:38Z")
> [@jbudd](#):
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> Selecting all with shift click is not a feature I would use much, I'm used to CTRL A selecting everything, across multiple applications.
I'm talking about how it is very useful to select all the nodes that are connected to each other
I normally have quite a few on the one tab and this makes it dead easy to select each one and move them altogether as one without having to drag mouse pointer around them all -which is very tricky if they don't form a rectangle and interfere with other nodes! : )
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### Author:  [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)
#### Post date: [19 November 2021 12:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/why-did-no-one-mention-shift-click-on-a-node-to-select-all-connected-nodes/53981/5 "2021-11-19T12:06:17Z")
Well I would raise an issue, except I only discovered this feature from Simon's post today so maybe I have not fully grasped what it's supposed to do.
Also I fairly recently discovered grouping nodes and how you can move a whole group together, but groups change the way clicking on a node works. Not sure that shift click is compatible with groups.
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### Author:  [@Buckskin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Buckskin)
#### Post date: [19 November 2021 21:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/why-did-no-one-mention-shift-click-on-a-node-to-select-all-connected-nodes/53981/6 "2021-11-19T21:26:34Z")
Shift click in groups works, but you have to click 3 times. Once to select the group, twice to select the node, three times to select linked nodes š
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [18 January 2022 21:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/why-did-no-one-mention-shift-click-on-a-node-to-select-all-connected-nodes/53981/7 "2022-01-18T21:27:15Z")
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