Selecting a long waveform quickly

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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I am using Audacity ver 2.1.3 and Windows 10.

Just a quick question about selecting a large (hour long) section of the audio waveform for deletion. After recording a 3 hour long audio file with Audacity, I wanted to highlight and delete the last hour of the recording. Highlighting an hour long section of the wave-form by left-clicking and dragging the mouse takes “forever”. Is there a faster way? I want to highlight the hour-long section of audio so that I can delete it. How can I quickly highlight a section of that length?

Thanks,
Carl Lewandowski

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There are several ways to do that. Here’s two:

  1. Click where you want the selection to start
  2. Zoom out to fit the entire project (“Ctrl + F”, but also see: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/zooming.html)
  3. Hold down the shift key and click and drag the selection from the cursor position to the end of the track.

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  4. Click where you want the selection to start
  5. “Shift + End”.
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Thank you,
Carl