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  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#gedit-working-with-files" group="second"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="gedit-open-file"/>
    <desc>Select a set of files to open.</desc>
  
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      <mal:name>Vincent Untz</mal:name>
      <mal:email>vuntz@gnome.org</mal:email>
      <mal:years>2006.</mal:years>
    </mal:credit>
  
    <mal:credit xmlns:mal="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="translator copyright">
      <mal:name>Jonathan Ernst</mal:name>
      <mal:email>jonathan@ernstfamily.ch</mal:email>
      <mal:years>2006.</mal:years>
    </mal:credit>
  
    <mal:credit xmlns:mal="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="translator copyright">
      <mal:name>Philippe Lefevre</mal:name>
      <mal:email>ph.l@libertysurf.fr</mal:email>
      <mal:years>2006.</mal:years>
    </mal:credit>
  
    <mal:credit xmlns:mal="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="translator copyright">
      <mal:name>Christophe Bliard</mal:name>
      <mal:email>christophe.bliard@trux.info</mal:email>
      <mal:years>2006.</mal:years>
    </mal:credit>
  
    <mal:credit xmlns:mal="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="translator copyright">
      <mal:name>Claude Paroz</mal:name>
      <mal:email>claude@2xlibre.net</mal:email>
      <mal:years>2007-2011.</mal:years>
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    <mal:credit xmlns:mal="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="translator copyright">
      <mal:name>Bruno Brouard</mal:name>
      <mal:email>annoa.b@gmail.com</mal:email>
      <mal:years>2011.</mal:years>
    </mal:credit>
  
    <mal:credit xmlns:mal="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="translator copyright">
      <mal:name>Luc Pionchon</mal:name>
      <mal:email>pionchon.luc@gmail.com</mal:email>
      <mal:years>2011.</mal:years>
    </mal:credit>
  
    <mal:credit xmlns:mal="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="translator copyright">
      <mal:name>Alain Lojewski</mal:name>
      <mal:email>allomervan@gmail.com</mal:email>
      <mal:years>2011-2014.</mal:years>
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    <mal:credit xmlns:mal="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="translator copyright">
      <mal:name>Alexandre Franke</mal:name>
      <mal:email>alexandre.franke@gmail.com</mal:email>
      <mal:years>2013.</mal:years>
    </mal:credit>
  
    <mal:credit xmlns:mal="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="translator copyright">
      <mal:name>Julien Hardelin</mal:name>
      <mal:email>jhardlin@orange.fr</mal:email>
      <mal:years>2013.</mal:years>
    </mal:credit>
  
    <mal:credit xmlns:mal="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="translator copyright">
      <mal:name>Guillaume Bernard</mal:name>
      <mal:email>associations@guillaume-bernard.fr</mal:email>
      <mal:years>2018</mal:years>
    </mal:credit>
  
    <mal:credit xmlns:mal="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="translator copyright">
      <mal:name>Charles Monzat</mal:name>
      <mal:email>charles.monzat@free.fr</mal:email>
      <mal:years>2020</mal:years>
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  </info>

  <title>Open several files at once</title>
  <p>
    Click the <gui>Open</gui> button. This will cause the <gui>Open</gui> dialog
    to appear.
  </p>
  <p>
    From the <gui>Open</gui> dialog, you can select more than one file with
    the <key>Ctrl</key> or <key>Shift</key> key.
  </p>
  <p>
    If you hold down the <key>Ctrl</key> key while you select a file, that
    file will be added to the selection.
  </p>
  <p>
    If you hold down the <key>Shift</key> key while you select a file, the
    selection of files will contain the first file, the last file, and all of
    the files in between.
  </p>
</page>
