Bulk editing status in GitHub Projects#

GitHub Projects has a mechanism for bulk updating the status of items, but it’s pretty difficult to figure out how to do it.

The trick is to use copy and paste. You can select a cell containing a status and hit Command+C to copy it - at which point a dotted border will be displayed around the cell.

Then you can select and then shift-click a range of other cells, and hit Command+V to paste the value.

Here’s a demo:

Here’s where this feature was introduced in the GitHub changelog. See also this community discussions thread.