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List View

From the Blender 5.2 LTS Manual by the Blender Documentation Team, adapted for Angelo ยท CC BY-SA 4.0

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  1. User Interface
    1. Window System
    2. Keymap
    3. UI Elements
      1. Buttons
      2. Input Fields
      3. Menus
      4. Eyedropper
      5. Decorators
      6. Data-Block Menu
      7. List View
      8. Tree View
      9. Color Picker
      10. Color Ramp Widget
      11. Color Palette
      12. Curve Widget
    4. Tools & Operators
    5. Nodes

List view with expanded Filtering Options panel.

This control is useful for managing lists of items. In addition to the main list, there is a Filtering panel on the bottom (hidden by default) and modification buttons on the right.

Select

To select an item, click LMB on it.

Rename

By double-clicking on an item, you can edit its name via a text field. This can also be achieved by clicking it with Ctrl-LMB.

Resize

The list view can be resized to show more or fewer items. Hover the mouse over the handle (::::), then click and drag to expand or shrink the list.

Filter

Click the Show filtering options button (triangle on bottom left) to show or hide the filter option panel.

Search Ctrl-F

Filters the list to only show items containing a certain term.

Invert

Toggle between including items that match the search term and those that do not contain the search term.

Sort by Name

This button switches between alphabetical and non-alphabetical ordering.

Reverse

Sort objects in ascending or descending order. This also applies to alphabetical sorting, if selected.

On the right of the list view are list modification buttons:

(Add)

Adds a new item.

(Remove)

Removes the selected item.

(Specials)

A menu with operators to edit list entries.

/ Move

Moves the selected item up/down one position.

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