Ways to Select Multiple Emails in Mac Mail
Your Apple Mail account can quickly get out of hand if you don’t read, sort, filter, delete, save, or print some of your emails in an effort to keep up with your correspondence. You can handle one email at a time, but your productivity improves exponentially when you deal with a selection of emails at the same time. Use one of several approaches to collect a range or combination of messages in the Mac Mail application to forward more than one message at once, save them to a file, send a couple to the printer, or quickly delete them.
How to Select Multiple Emails That Are Not in Continuous Order
All the emails between the first and last message you chose are highlighted, indicating that they are selected. You can move, filter, trash, print, or take another action on them all at once.
How to Add to or Subtract Individual Emails From a Range
How to Select Multiple Emails That Aren’t in Contiguous Order
The emails you want to select won’t always be in continuous order. They may be interspersed randomly among many others. To make a selection of emails that are not in continuous order, click one email to select it and then hold down the Command key while clicking on additional messages interspersed throughout the list of emails.
Using Search in Mail
If you have an enormous backlog of emails, using the search function in Mail to find the emails you want might be quicker. You can then use Command+A to select all the emails from the search result or use the Command key to select only some of them. Whichever method you use to select messages in the Mail application, you can treat them as one as you file, print, delete, or perform another action.
