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# Select files by pattern

You can select files in a folder using a pattern on the file name. Press `Ctrl`+`S` to bring up the Select Items Matching window. Type in a pattern using common parts of the file names plus wild card characters. There are two wild card characters available:

- * matches any number of any characters, even no characters at all.

- ? matches exactly one of any character.

For example:

- If you have an OpenDocument Text file, a PDF file, and an image that all have the same base name Invoice, select all three with the pattern

  Invoice.*

- If you have some photos that are named like Vacation-001.jpg, Vacation-002.jpg, Vacation-003.jpg; select them all with the pattern

  Vacation-???.jpg

- If you have photos as before, but you've edited some of them and added -edited to the end of the file name of the photos you've edited, select the edited photos with

  Vacation-???-edited.jpg

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