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Google Drive adds support for multi-text selection and file copy/paste shortcut

Better late than never.
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Published onMay 27, 2022

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TL;DR
  • Google Drive adds multi-text selection.
  • Google Drive gains a shortcut to copy and paste files.

Google Drive has finally added support for two basic features, features it arguably should have had from the beginning.

The first major addition is multi-text selection, much like Microsoft Word. Unfortunately, unlike Word, Google Drive requires a total of four keyboard shortcuts to select multiple sections of text. Those shortcuts are:

– Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Left/Right arrow on Windows
– Ctrl + Cmd+ Shift + Left/Right arrow on Mac

Read more: How to use Google Drive

The second upgrade Google Drive received was a shortcut to copy and paste files. Fortunately, Google stuck with a much simpler, more familiar combination:

– Ctrl + C, Ctrl + X, and Ctrl + V on Windows
– Cmd + C, Cmd + X, and Cmd + V on Mac

These new upgrades are relatively minor, but go a long way toward closing the gap with Word, and provide a solid quality-of-life upgrade.

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