In message , Stan Brown
writes:
On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 14:25:06 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote:
The tablet is a touch tablet, which makes makes it a pain to make the
inputs, and I have never found how to do the operation mouse operation
Click, Shift Click to select multiple files on the touch screen.

Ctrl+A selects all files in the current folder.

Yes, but Keith might have wanted to select, say, 7 files, or a range of
files, rather than all of them.

Of course there's also the command prompt.

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