Template:XEdit record selection

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Overview

This template is so it may be included in several articles referencing xEdit.

Programs and Tools

xEdit (aka TES5Edit and various renamed specific game version names) on GitHub.
TES5Edit on Nexus.
Tome of xEdit On-line Documentation.
FNVEdit Training Manual PDF document (applicable to all games).

Detail

A word about "record selection" in xEdit: You may find a number of desired "selection blocks" of records of various types. Unlike standard Windows editors, xEdit provides a mechanism allowing you to select multiple "selection blocks" and chain them together using the standard Windows <Shift+Click> and <Ctrl+Click> selection commands. This means once some selection of records has been made, you can add an additional group of records by:

<Ctrl+Click> on the first record of the next range, (the <Ctrl> key adds that record to the existing selections), then;
<Ctrl+Shift+Click> on the last record of that new range to extend and "chain" the "block" selection to those previously selected, or use <Ctrl+Click> to add each new individual record.
If you do not use the <Ctrl> key to combine the new selection with those previous ones, you are starting a new, separate selection which discards all those previous selections.