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 optimum comfort and efficiency.

Touchpad Basics

Use the touchpad as follows:

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 to scroll a page up, down, left or right. This button mimics your cursor pressing on the vertical and horizontal scroll bards of Windows applications.

Function

Left Button

Right Button

4-way Scroll Button

Tap

 

 

 

 

 

Execute

Click twice quickly

 

 

Tap twice quickly

 

 

 

 

 

Select

Click once

 

 

Tap once

 

 

 

 

 

Drag

Click and hold. Then

 

 

Tap twice quickly. On the

 

slide your finger

 

 

second tap, slide your

 

across the touchpad

 

 

finger across the

 

to drag the cursor

 

 

touchpad to drag the

 

over the selection.

 

 

cursor over the selection.

 

 

 

 

 

Access

 

Click once

 

 

context menu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scroll

 

 

Click and hold the up/

 

 

 

 

down/ left/ right button

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTE: A. Keep your fingers dry and clean when using the touchpad. Also keep the touchpad dry and clean. The touchpad is sensitive to your finger movements: the lighter your touch, the better the response. Tapping harder will not increase the touchpad’s responsiveness. B. When using an external USB

mouse, you can press Fn+rto disable the touchpad.

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Acer VD.T39V1.001 manual Touchpad Basics, Function Left Button Right Button Way Scroll Button Tap