Select Menu: Tracks

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These commands extend the current selection up and/or down into all tracks, or Sync-Locked tracks in the project.
Select Menu has commands that enable you make selections of tracks or parts of the tracks in your projectView Menu has commands that determine the amount of detail you see in all the tracks in the project window. It also lets you show or hide Toolbars and some additional windows such as Undo HistoryTransport Menu commands let you play or stop, loop play, scrub play or record (including timed and sound activated recordings)Tracks Menu provides commands for creating and removing tracks, applying operations to selected tracks such as mixing, resampling or converting from stereo to mono, and lets you add or edit labelsGenerate Menu lets you create audio containing tones, noise or silenceAudacity includes many built-in effects and also lets you use a wide range of plug-in effectsThe Analyze Menu contains tools for finding out about the characteristics of your audio, or labeling key featureThe Tools Menu contains customisable toolsThe Extra menu provides access to additional Commands that are not available in the normal default Audacity menusThe Help Menu lets you find out more about the Audacity application and how to use it. It also includes some diagnostic tools.Selects all of the audio in all of the tracksDeselects all of the audio in all of the tracksTracksFor modifying, saving and restoring a selectionFor making a selection of a frequency rangeFor modifying a selection, taking account of clipsSelects from the position of the cursor to the previously stored cursor positionStores the current cursor position for use in a later selectionMoves the edges of a selection region (or the cursor position) slightly so they are at a rising zero crossing pointExtends the current selection up and/or down into all tracks in the projectExtends the current selection up and/or down into all sync-locked tracks in the currently selected track groupThe MenusSelect-TracksMenu.png
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In All Tracks  Ctrl + Shift + K

Extends the current selection up and/or down into all tracks in the project.

EditSelectBefore.png
Before extending the selection - with selection in just one track


EditSelectAllTracksAfter.png
After extending - the selection now extends across all tracks


In All Sync-Locked Tracks  Ctrl + Shift + Y

Extends the current selection up and/or down into all Sync-Locked tracks in the currently selected track group.

EditSelectBefore.png
Before extending the selection - with selection in just one track and with a Sync-Locked track


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After extending - the selection now covers the original track plus the Sync-Locked track



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