Act on many records at once

1. 1Filter the list down to exactly the rows you want to act on. This is the step that matters — the actions apply to what you selected, and a wrong filter is how the wrong hundred records get changed.
2. 2Tick the rows, or use the header checkbox to take everything currently shown.
3. 3Pick the action from the bar that appears.

Filter first, select second. Selecting all on an unfiltered list means every record in your workspace. Narrow it, read the count, then select.

Bulk delete shows its progress as it runs — Please wait while we delete the selected items. and Deleting {{current}} of {{total}}... — and Do not close this window. until it finishes.

It reports honestly rather than claiming success: you get All {{count}} items deleted successfully. when everything worked, or Deletion Complete with Errors with {{deleted}} items deleted successfully, {{failed}} items failed. when some rows could not be removed. A row usually fails because something else still points at it.

Deletion is not undoable. There is no company-wide recycle bin to pull records back out of. Export the selection first if there is any doubt — Export a list to Excel or CSV — and it costs you thirty seconds.

Changing many records rather than deleting them is often better done through the importer: export the rows, edit the spreadsheet, and re-import in update mode. See Run an import.

Repeating the same change forever is a job for a rule, not for you: Create a workflow rule