# How to bulk deselect & select tickbox items in - Tableau Tip

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2022-10-21
- **Format:** Short · 1 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Productivity
- **Tools:** Tableau (filters)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-bulk-deselect--select-tickbox-items-in---tableau-tip
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUO7rV3wpoM

I show a quick trick for multi-selecting tickbox items in Tableau: click the first item, scroll to the last, then hold Shift to select or deselect everything in between.

## Key takeaways

- Click the first tickbox item, then hold Shift and click the last to select or deselect the whole range at once.
- Scroll down to reach the final item before Shift-clicking when the list is long.
- The same Shift trick works for bulk deselecting as well as selecting.

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-bulk-deselect--select-tickbox-items-in---tableau-tip

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