# Select all entries in a group

**URL:** <https://discourse.jabref.org/t/select-all-entries-in-a-group/3319>\
**Category:** Features\
**Created:** [April 5, 2022, 7:28pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/select-all-entries-in-a-group/3319 "2022-04-05T19:28:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![Hexonium](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/hexonium/32/1346_2.png) [@Hexonium](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Hexonium)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 7:28pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/select-all-entries-in-a-group/3319/1 "2022-04-05T19:28:37Z")

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Could we have a feature to select all entries that belong to a specific group (CTRL+A isn’t working)? This would make the “export selected entries” option much more convenient to use.

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**Author:** ![ThiloteE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/thilotee/32/1008_2.png) [@ThiloteE](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/ThiloteE)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 11:36am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/select-all-entries-in-a-group/3319/2 "2022-04-07T11:36:14Z")

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What do you mean CTRL+A is not working? It definitely works for me.

1. Click on a group.
2. Click on an entry.
3. Press CTRL+A

→ All entries are selected.

1. Export selected entries (CTRL+Shift+E)

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**Author:** ![Hexonium](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/hexonium/32/1346_2.png) [@Hexonium](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Hexonium)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 4:50pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/select-all-entries-in-a-group/3319/3 "2022-04-07T16:50:21Z")

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I’m on macOS Monterey and it doesn’t work (I also tried Cmd+A since it’s the usual command for that). Should I open a bug report then?

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**Author:** ![ThiloteE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/thilotee/32/1008_2.png) [@ThiloteE](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/ThiloteE)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/select-all-entries-in-a-group/3319/4 "2022-04-07T17:31:01Z")

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@Siedlerchr you are on Mac, right?

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**Author:** ![Siedlerchr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/siedlerchr/32/216_2.png) [@Siedlerchr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Siedlerchr)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/select-all-entries-in-a-group/3319/5 "2022-04-07T17:48:24Z")

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Hi,

Mac user here as well, although I am still on Big Sur.  
Sometimes you have to press Cmd + A twice.

Seems like first CMD+A is selecting an author starting with the letter A.

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**Author:** ![Hexonium](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/hexonium/32/1346_2.png) [@Hexonium](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Hexonium)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/select-all-entries-in-a-group/3319/6 "2022-04-07T18:05:05Z")

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Yes, I’m on Mac. In my case it selects the first entry in the group (even if I press cmd+A many times).

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**Author:** ![Siedlerchr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/siedlerchr/32/216_2.png) [@Siedlerchr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Siedlerchr)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/select-all-entries-in-a-group/3319/7 "2022-04-07T19:23:58Z")

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Can you please try the latest development version? [index - powered by h5ai v0.29.0 (https://larsjung.de/h5ai/)](https://builds.jabref.org/main/)  
We recently upgraded the javafx version and it included many mac related fixes as well,  
Remember to make a backup of your library before trying out the new version.

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**Author:** ![Hexonium](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/hexonium/32/1346_2.png) [@Hexonium](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Hexonium)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 9:15pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/select-all-entries-in-a-group/3319/8 "2022-04-07T21:15:15Z")

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I just tried and it still doesn’t work.

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**Author:** ![Hexonium](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/hexonium/32/1346_2.png) [@Hexonium](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Hexonium)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 11:32pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/select-all-entries-in-a-group/3319/9 "2022-04-26T23:32:59Z")

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Should I open a bug report?

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**Author:** ![Siedlerchr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/siedlerchr/32/216_2.png) [@Siedlerchr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Siedlerchr)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 7:06am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/select-all-entries-in-a-group/3319/10 "2022-04-27T07:06:35Z")

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Hi,  
yes please open a bug report at our issue tarcker so we can track this [GitHub - JabRef/jabref: Graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and biblatex (.bib) databases](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref)