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Using the Right Mouse Button |
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Ever notice that little plastic chip on your mouse under your middle or ring finger? No — it's not a finger rest — but a hidden feature waiting to make your computing world easier.
Software programs use pull-down menus, buttons, and palettes to organize commands. In most programs you can also access several of these commands by clicking the Right Mouse Button. And it's contextual: depending on where your mouse is pointed when you right-click, the menu will vary. This presents a universal way to access many of the most popular features of your software just a click away.
Universal Windows Tips:
- On the Windows Desktop, right click on the Desktop itself to Arrange Icons by name, type, date, or size. You can also change your Display Properties here.
- Right-clicking on a document or folder icon lets you look at its Properties, such as size, location, and date created. Here you can also make a document Read-only so changes may not be made.
- Right click a document icon to Create a Shortcut.
- Right click a single document or group of selected documents to Copy and Paste them from one directory to another.
Microsoft Office Tips (Word, Excel, PowerPoint):
- Most right-click menus provide the Cut, Copy, and Paste commands. You can select text or graphics to Copy and Paste into another document or even another program.
- At the top of a window, right click the gray pull-down menu or button bars for a list of all available button bars you can hide or show.
- Make Font, Paragraph, or Bullets and Numbering changes by first selecting (highlighting) text, then right-clicking.
- Right click a red or green underlined word flagged by Spelling or Grammar checkers to look at suggested replacements.
Web Browser Tips:
- From a hyperlink on one page you can open a new web page in a second browser window. Right click the link and choose Open in New Window.
- Want to save a hyperlinked document to disk rather than open it with its link? Right click the link and use the Save Target As command.
- Right click a web graphic to copy and paste elsewhere, or use the Save Picture As feature to save for later use.
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February 7, 2007
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