Thursday, March 31, 2011

Checking all check-boxes without a "Check All" option.

I recently found that Facebook was offering a new feature where you can post a question as a survey where not only can your friends reply, but anyone on facebook can. Pretty cool little idea. I posted a new question asking "Did you know you could post surveys now?" to get an idea of how it would work. When it posted I checked back a couple hours later and saw only 1 person had answered it... unacceptable. I decided I would "Ask Friends" to come take the survey. I clicked to invite some friends and was met with a page displaying everyone's name and a corresponding check-box. Rather then manually clicking a whopping 90 check boxes (I'm a popular guy what can I say haha) try this:

On a form with check-boxes, to select them all press Alt and "+". That is a literal plus sign in this instance. So Alt and Plus sign simultaneously will select all your check-boxes.






If you change your mind you can press Alt and "-", again in this instance it is a literal dash. Alt and Dash will un-select all check-boxes.

This is handy if you find yourself needing to select all your friends, or perhaps fly through an online survey ;)

Hope this makes your box checking faster!

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