Though you may have used a keyboard of some type or a traditional mouse attached to a desktop computer, a laptop pointing device, called a touchpad, maybe new to you. Frankly, a laptop touchpad, which is essentially your laptop’s built-in mouse, takes a little getting used to.
Laptop mouses come in two types: the touchpad and the pointing stick. The touchpad, by far the most common type, is a flat area, located beneath your keyboard. A pointing stick is a small button located among your computer’s keys.
How to Use the Touchpad
- When you move your finger across the touchpad surface or place your finger on the pointing stick and move the stick slightly in any direction, a corresponding mouse pointer moves around your computer screen.
- With a touchpad, which is what you’re likely to have on your laptop, you perform clicking actions to open or select things on screen by using the right and left buttons on the bottom of the touchpad.
- The left button on the touchpad is used for left-click actions and the right button for right-click actions. Left-clicking opens or selects items, while right-clicking opens a shortcut menu from which you can choose commands to perform actions.
- Right-clicking: If you click the right touchpad button, Windows displays a shortcut menu that is specific to the item you clicked.
- Clicking and dragging: To click and drag, you press and continue to hold down the left mouse button and then move (drag) the mouse to another location.
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Scrolling: Many touchpads and wireless mouse models have a way to scroll through a document or Web site on your screen. Just roll the wheel on a mouse down to move through pages going forward or scroll up to move backward in your document. With a touchpad, there is often an area marked on the right or left where you can run your finger up or down to scroll through a document.
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