Touchpad

The built-in touchpad is a pointing device that senses movement on its surface. This means the cursor responds as you move your finger on the surface of the touchpad. The central location on the palmrest provides optimal comfort and support.

NOTE: If you are using an external USB mouse, you can press Fn-F7to disable the touchpad.

Touchpad Basics

The following items teache you how to use the touchpad:

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) button (top/bottom/left/and right) to scrolla page up, down, left or right. This button mimics your cursor pressing on the vertical and horizontal scroll bars of Windows applications.

Function

Left Button

Right Button

Scroll Button

Tap

 

 

 

 

 

Execute

Click twice

 

 

Tap twice (at the same

 

quickly

 

 

speed as double-clicking

 

 

 

 

the mouse button)

 

 

 

 

 

Select

Click once

 

 

Tap once

 

 

 

 

 

Drag

Click and hold,

 

 

Tap twice (at the same

 

then use finger

 

 

speed as double-clicking

 

to drag the

 

 

a mouse button) then hold

 

cursor on the

 

 

finger to the touchpad on

 

touchpad

 

 

the second tap to drag the

 

 

 

 

cursor

 

 

 

 

 

Access context

 

Click once

 

 

menu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Acer 3000 series manual Touchpad Basics, Function Left Button Right Button Scroll Button Tap