# Did you know this? (Board-related) **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 20, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-this-board-related/529740 "2010-02-20T05:30:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-this-board-related/529740/1 "2010-02-20T05:30:43Z")
That when you’re doing a search, if you want to search more than one forum, all you have to do is click, hold, and drag the left mouse button…and it allows you to select multiple forums. I knew that. I’m just curious how many others knew that.\* \*Maybe on the off chance someone will reply going “Whoa! I never knew that! Thanks, **Idle**!” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-this-board-related/529740/2 "2010-02-20T05:35:33Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > \ all you have to do is click, hold, and drag the left mouse button..and it allows you to select multiple forums. I don’t know what you’re describing. (I’m on a Mac PowerBook.) ‘Click’, I get. ‘Drag the left mouse button’? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-this-board-related/529740/3 "2010-02-20T05:40:06Z")
When you’re on the search page. You know how you can select what forum to search in? And the forum you’re searching is highlighted in blue? Well, you can select multiple forums to search in, not just one or all of them (although they have to be forums that are next to each other). ETA: [Here’s a screenshot](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v237/chrisln/Searchinglikeamotherfuck.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-this-board-related/529740/4 "2010-02-20T05:47:02Z")
Ah. I know you can select multiple adjacent forums (by using the Shift key). I thought you were describing how to select non-adjacent forums (which I can’t do). ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-this-board-related/529740/5 "2010-02-20T05:51:01Z")
Or how about this…didja know this? That after you type a post, all you have to do is hit “Tab” and then “spacebar”. I’ve been replying that way for years and never know any other way now. Unless you want to preview…then it’s “tab”, “tab”, “spacebar”. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-this-board-related/529740/6 "2010-02-20T05:59:24Z")
So shift-click works for adjacent forums. I wonder if ctrl-click works for nonadjacent ones. Hang on. Yep! Sure does! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-this-board-related/529740/7 "2010-02-20T06:03:03Z")
D’OH! :smack: I was using the crtl key (for ‘left mouse button’) instead of the Command key. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-this-board-related/529740/8 "2010-02-20T06:48:22Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > So shift-click works for adjacent forums. I wonder if ctrl-click works for nonadjacent ones. > > Hang on. > > Yep! Sure does! 🙂 Whoa! I never knew that! Thanks, **Ogre**! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-this-board-related/529740/9 "2010-02-20T14:42:38Z")
Moved MPSIMS --\> ATMB.