Within a table view, you can interactively select records by pointing at them, or you can select only records that meet some criteria; for example, use a tool or an expression to find all cities with a population greater than one million. Selecting interactively works for individual records, a consecutive range of records, or non-consecutive records. You can click, click and drag, use keyboard shortcuts, or use the row header context menu to select interactively within the table.
- Right-click a feature layer in the Contents pane and click Attribute Table
. Alternately, right-click a stand-alone table in the Contents pane and click Open . - Click the row header (the small grey square) in the table adjacent to the record you want to select. To select consecutive records, click and drag.
- Press and hold Ctrl while clicking additional records.
- You can also select a range of records in a table view. Clicking the first record in the desired range and press and hold SHIFT key while clicking the last record in the range. You can also click a record to select it and drag up or down to select a range of records.
- The context menu for a row header also contains selection options. Right-click a row and click Select/Unselect
to add or remove an individual record from the selection set.
Work with selected records
The table toolbar contains a set of tools specific to working with selected records.
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| Zoom To Selection | Center the map on the features in the selected rows. |
| Switch Selection | Reverse the current selection set to deselect all selected features and select all the deselected ones. |
| Clear Selection | Unselect all currently selected rows. |
| Delete Selection | Delete all selected rows from the table. |
Selection sets also support highlighting records to identify specific features from an already defined subgroup. Both row and feature in the view are highlighted yellow. The table toolbar also contains a set of tools specific to working with highlighted records.