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Mouse Skills

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To Click

Press and release mouse button 1 without moving the mouse.

By default, mouse button 1 is the left button.

Tasks that you perform by clicking include:

Selecting a window or icon, making it active or selected
Choosing a button in a dialog box or a control in the Front Panel
Choosing a hyperlink within a help window

To Double-Click

Press and release mouse button 1 twice in rapid succession, without moving the mouse.

Here are some tasks you perform by double-clicking:

Starting the default action for a File Manager or workspace icon
Restoring a window icon (displaying the whole window again)
Closing a window to remove it from the workspace—double-click the Window menu button in the upper left corner of the window frame

To Drag

To move a window or drop an icon, use the press-drag-release motion.

Point to the window's title bar or anywhere on the icon, press and hold mouse button 1, drag the mouse, then release the button.

Tasks you perform by dragging and dropping include:

Moving windows and icons on your screen
Moving or copying files and folders within File Manager
Dragging a slider within a scroll bar to scroll the contents of a window
Printing a file by dropping its icon on the Printer control in the Front Panel

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