diff --git a/electron/main/menu.js b/electron/main/menu.js
index 353c2fee..420d5d4a 100644
--- a/electron/main/menu.js
+++ b/electron/main/menu.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 const { app, Menu } = require("electron")
-import { OPEN_SETTINGS_EVENT, UNDO_EVENT, REDO_EVENT, MOVE_BLOCK_EVENT, DELETE_BLOCK_EVENT, CHANGE_BUFFER_EVENT } from '@/src/common/constants'
+import { OPEN_SETTINGS_EVENT, UNDO_EVENT, REDO_EVENT, MOVE_BLOCK_EVENT, DELETE_BLOCK_EVENT, CHANGE_BUFFER_EVENT, SELECT_ALL_EVENT } from '@/src/common/constants'
 import { openAboutWindow } from "./about";
 import { quit } from "./index"
 
@@ -22,6 +22,14 @@ const redoMenuItem = {
     },
 }
 
+const selectAllMenuItem = {
+    label: 'Select All',
+    accelerator: 'CommandOrControl+a',
+    click: (menuItem, window, event) => {
+        window?.webContents.send(SELECT_ALL_EVENT)
+    },
+}
+
 const deleteBlockMenuItem = {
     label: 'Delete block',
     accelerator: 'CommandOrControl+Shift+D',
@@ -117,7 +125,7 @@ const template = [
             ...(isMac ? [
                 { role: 'pasteAndMatchStyle' },
                 { role: 'delete' },
-                { role: 'selectAll' },
+                selectAllMenuItem,
                 { type: 'separator' },
                 {
                     label: 'Speech',
@@ -129,7 +137,7 @@ const template = [
             ] : [
                 { role: 'delete' },
                 { type: 'separator' },
-                { role: 'selectAll' }
+                selectAllMenuItem,
             ])
         ]
     },
@@ -226,7 +234,7 @@ export function getEditorContextMenu(win) {
         {role: 'copy'},
         {role: 'paste'},
         {type: 'separator'},
-        {role: 'selectAll'},
+        selectAllMenuItem,
         {type: 'separator'},
         deleteBlockMenuItem,
         moveBlockMenuItem,
diff --git a/src/common/constants.js b/src/common/constants.js
index 90d9ac03..5667f087 100644
--- a/src/common/constants.js
+++ b/src/common/constants.js
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ export const UNDO_EVENT = "undo"
 export const MOVE_BLOCK_EVENT = "move-block"
 export const DELETE_BLOCK_EVENT = "delete-block"
 export const CHANGE_BUFFER_EVENT = "change-buffer"
+export const SELECT_ALL_EVENT = "select-all"
 
 export const UPDATE_AVAILABLE_EVENT = "update-available"
 export const UPDATE_NOT_AVAILABLE_EVENT = "update-not-available"
diff --git a/src/components/Editor.vue b/src/components/Editor.vue
index 9dfde363..aca46583 100644
--- a/src/components/Editor.vue
+++ b/src/components/Editor.vue
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     import { useErrorStore } from "../stores/error-store"
     import { useHeynoteStore } from "../stores/heynote-store.js"
     import { useEditorCacheStore } from "../stores/editor-cache"
-    import { REDO_EVENT, WINDOW_CLOSE_EVENT, DELETE_BLOCK_EVENT, UNDO_EVENT } from '@/src/common/constants';
+    import { REDO_EVENT, WINDOW_CLOSE_EVENT, DELETE_BLOCK_EVENT, UNDO_EVENT, SELECT_ALL_EVENT } from '@/src/common/constants';
 
     const NUM_EDITOR_INSTANCES = 5
 
@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@
                 }
             })
 
+            window.heynote.mainProcess.on(SELECT_ALL_EVENT, () => {
+                if (this.editor) {
+                    toRaw(this.editor).selectAll()
+                }
+            })
+
             // if debugSyntaxTree prop is set, display syntax tree for debugging
             if (this.debugSyntaxTree) {
                 setInterval(() => {
@@ -82,6 +88,7 @@
             window.heynote.mainProcess.off(UNDO_EVENT)
             window.heynote.mainProcess.off(REDO_EVENT)
             window.heynote.mainProcess.off(DELETE_BLOCK_EVENT)
+            window.heynote.mainProcess.off(SELECT_ALL_EVENT)
             this.editorCacheStore.tearDown();
         },
 
diff --git a/src/editor/editor.js b/src/editor/editor.js
index 4d1c2b77..749328ad 100644
--- a/src/editor/editor.js
+++ b/src/editor/editor.js
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import { customSetup } from "./setup.js"
 import { heynoteLang } from "./lang-heynote/heynote.js"
 import { noteBlockExtension, blockLineNumbers, blockState, getActiveNoteBlock, triggerCursorChange } from "./block/block.js"
 import { heynoteEvent, SET_CONTENT, DELETE_BLOCK, APPEND_BLOCK } from "./annotation.js";
-import { changeCurrentBlockLanguage, triggerCurrenciesLoaded, getBlockDelimiter, deleteBlock } from "./block/commands.js"
+import { changeCurrentBlockLanguage, triggerCurrenciesLoaded, getBlockDelimiter, deleteBlock, selectAll } from "./block/commands.js"
 import { formatBlockContent } from "./block/format-code.js"
 import { heynoteKeymap } from "./keymap.js"
 import { emacsKeymap } from "./emacs.js"
@@ -413,6 +413,10 @@ export class HeynoteEditor {
     redo() {
         redo(this.view)
     }
+
+    selectAll() {
+        selectAll(this.view)
+    }
 }