How to quickly pick up items in chests on Minecraft Survival Games?

I have Minecraft 1.7.4 and I go on Multiplayer servers that involve the Survival games, as in which some people call 'Hungercraft'.

Anyways, I was wondering how to quickly select an item inside a chest to put into my hot bar or my inventory without having the drag it there.

I have tried multiple methods people have told me.
Including shift clicking, hovering over the item and clicking Q, etc.
Help me, please and thank you <3.

Added (1). Thanks so much guys it really worked, sorry for the trouble haha

Chariss

Shift click it and it will go in there and if you hover over an item and press 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 It will go in one of your nine slots based on the number you pressed

RYAN

Use hotkeys by going putting your mouse over the item you want in your hot bar then press the number of where you want it to be example: Mouse over sword and press 1 = Sword in hotbar slot number one

Caleb

I know you have heard shift clicking, but try troubleshooting it like this.
Go to controls, and restore defaults.
Then shift clicking should work because that is the default action for quick grabbing items.
You may have done something as accidentally binding a different key for quick grab. Let me know if reseting to default helps!

RYAN