What All Ranges mode does
In ESP, All Ranges mode takes whatever cells you've selected and stretches that selection through every row of the table. Select a single cell, press the key, and the selection runs up and down through every row, so you end up with that entire column selected, top to bottom. Any change you make then applies to all of those cells together.
Turning it on and off
- Press
Rto switch All Ranges on. - Press
Ragain to switch it off.
In the text view you'll see the selection jump from a single cell to a full column when it's on, which is the easiest way to confirm which mode you're in.
When we use it
- Roughing in a new table. When a table is empty or copied from another engine, setting each whole column to a sensible value first is faster than filling cells one by one.
- Shifting an area of the map. If every row in a column, or in a block of neighboring columns, needs a little more or less, select it with All Ranges and adjust it in one step.
It's easy to forget the mode is on and change far more of the table than you meant to. Glance at the selection before every edit, especially on ignition tables, and save a copy of your map before big changes.
If you only want the rows above your selection, use All Ranges Above mode instead. For the basics of picking cells, see selecting cells and increasing and decreasing cell values.
