Acer 1600 series manual Touchpad basics

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Touchpad basics

Use the touchpad as follows:

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English

Move your finger across the touchpad to move the cursor.

Press the left (1) and right (3) buttons located on the edge of the touchpad to do

selection and execution functions. These two buttons are similar to the left and right buttons on a mouse. Tapping on the touchpad produces similar results.

Use the 4-way scroll (2) key (top/bottom/left/right) to scroll a page up, down, left or right. This button mimics your cursor pressing on the vertical and horizontal scroll bars of Windows applications.

Function

Right

4-way scroll

Left button

Tap

 

button

key

 

 

 

Execute

Click twice

Tap twice (at the same

 

quickly

speed as double-

 

 

clicking a mouse

 

 

button)

 

 

 

Select

Click once

Tap once

 

 

 

Drag

Click and hold,

Tap twice (at the same

 

then use finger

speed as double-

 

to drag the

clicking a mouse

 

cursor on the

button) then hold

 

touchpad

finger to the touchpad

 

 

on the second tap and

 

 

drag the cursor

 

 

 

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