Selecting multiple cells with keyboard command?

Is there a way in Numbers to select many adjecent cells in a column without using the mouse? I have a document that has thousands of rows, so selecting 2000 cells in a column with the mouse for example, obviously takes forever. I would love to be able to give the command 'select A1 to A2000'

Hi Jerry,
I didn't want to select the full column, only part of it, like 2000 cells somewhere in the middle of 4000. But your tip made me play around with the Command and Shift keys and I figured out a way to do it. I selcted the full column, then I Command-clicked on the first cell I wanted to in my selection. That made a 'gap' in the selction. Now I went to the very top of the document and Shift-clicked on the first cell. Then all the cells above my first target cell was de-selected. Then I did the same thing and Command-clikced on the the last cell I wanted to highlight, and then went to the last cell of the document and used Shift-Click do deselect everything below the last cell I wanted to select.

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