Within a table view, you can interactively select records by pointing at them, or you can select only records that meet some criteria; for example, use a tool or an expression to find all cities with a population greater than 1 million. Selecting interactively works for individual records, a consecutive range of records, or nonconsecutive records. You can click, click and drag, use keyboard shortcuts, or use the row header context menu to select interactively within the table.
- Right-click a feature layer in the Contents pane and click Attribute Table
. Alternately, right-click a stand-alone table in the Contents pane and click Open . - Click the row header (the small gray square containing the row number) in the table adjacent to the record you want to select. To select consecutive records, click and drag.
- Press and hold Ctrl while clicking additional records.
- You can also select a range of records in a table view. Click the first record in the desired range and press and hold Shift key while clicking the last record in the range. You can also click a record to select it and drag up or down to select a range of records.
- The context menu for a row header also contains selection options. Right-click a row and click Select/Unselect
to add or remove an individual record from the selection set.The selection row count for the table is reported at the bottom of the table view next to the commands for navigating to the beginning or end of the table. This corresponds to the spatial feature count in the map labelled in the status bar. If the table is a standalone table, the selected row count is reported separately in the status bar of the map view next to the selected feature count. For example, you will see Selected Features: 12, followed by Rows: 2. If you have more than one standalone table containing a selection, the count listed for selected rows will be combined.
Work with selected records
The table toolbar contains a set of tools specific to working with selected records.
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
Select By Attributes | Select features by their attribute values. |
| Zoom To Selection | Center the map on the features in the selected rows. |
| Switch Selection | Reverse the current selection set to deselect all selected features and select all the deselected ones. |
| Clear Selection | Unselect all currently selected rows. |
| Delete Selection | Delete all selected rows from the table. |
Copy Selection | Copy selected rows to the clipboard. |
Selection sets also support highlighting records to identify specific features from an already defined subgroup. Both row and feature in the view are highlighted yellow. The table toolbar also contains a set of tools specific to working with highlighted records.