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Using the Space Bar
Updated on Sep 19, 2025
The space bar allows you to toggle selected items check state with a single hit. Pressing space bar selects current item if it is not selected. When current item is selected and the space bar key is pressed there are two cases:
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Toggle selected items, if all items CheckStates are equal.
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Check selected items, if at least one item has different CheckState.

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Initially there are three selected items and another one is focused.
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Selects the focused item.
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Checks all selected items (that's why selected items has different CheckState).
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Toggles selected items CheckState.