Select two different meshes to edit in the same scene?

Hi, How to select two different meshes in the same scene? After selected I want to join two vertices on both meshes with J, seems to be simple but I am struggling to find in this forum and in google and can not find help. If I select in the outliner turns Object Mode, if click on TAB goes to Edit Mode but I can not select the second mesh vertice only one mesh can be selected at a time. :frowning: What Am I doing wrong?

You can only have one object in edit mode at any one time. You would have to join the two objects (Ctrl+J) before you can edit them at the same time

Thank you Richard.