ALeft button

BScroll wheel button (scrolling mouse only)

CRight button

NOTE: The wireless mouse goes into a sleep or suspend mode after 20 minutes of inactivity. Click a button on the mouse to wake it. (Moving the wireless mouse does not wake it.)

The mouse has two or three buttons on the top.

 

 

• Click the left mouse button to position the cursor or to

A

B

select an item.

C

• Click the right mouse button to display a menu of

 

 

commands for the item you clicked.

 

 

• On select models, use the scroll wheel button in the

 

 

centre for scrolling and panning.

 

 

Double-clickmeans to press the left button on the mouse

 

 

two times in a row. To double-click, you click the button

 

 

(press it and then release it), and then quickly click it

 

 

again.

 

 

 

 

 

NOTE: Your mouse may look different from the one

 

 

shown here.

 

 

 

 

 

You can switch the function of the left and right buttons for left-handed use. Refer to “switching mouse button functions” on page 20.

If your mouse does not work properly, refer to “troubleshooting” on page 67.

scrolling

Click the left mouse button to place the cursor in a document, and then:

•To scroll toward the beginning of a document, roll the scroll wheel button up (away from you).

•To scroll toward the end of a document, roll the scroll wheel button down (toward you).

autoscrolling

1Place the cursor anywhere in the text, and press the scroll wheel button once. An autoscroll icon appears.

2Move the mouse in the direction you want to scroll. The farther you move the mouse from the starting point, the faster the document scrolls.

3To stop autoscrolling, press the scroll wheel button again.

NOTE: Autoscrolling does not work with some software programs.

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