Pressing and Holding (The Right-Click)


Pressing and Holding (The Right-Click)

From the heading, you may have the impression that this is the section where you get warm and snuggly with your pen, but you'd be wrong. Pressing and holding is how you right-click with a pen.

Right-clicking with a mouse displays shortcut menus (called context menus) that offer commands related to whatever you right-clicked on. For example, if you right-click text in a Microsoft Word document, you get a shortcut menu with commands such as Cut, Paste, and Font.

To do the same with a Tablet PC pen, you simply press the pen close to the object of your desire; to get the equivalent of a right-click, keep holding your pen on the screen, and then release it after a few moments.

 Tip  Instead of using the press-and-hold feature, you can use the Right-click button on the Writing Pad (it looks like a little mouse) to perform a right-click.

Here's how it works: Press on the Windows desktop with your pen right now. (Be patient, this may take a couple of seconds.) After a moment, a little mouse icon appears. Lift your pen tip and the shortcut menu appears (see Figure 4-7).

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Figure 4-7: The little mouse icon disappears as soon as you lift your pen; then a shortcut menu like this one appears.

 Tip  You can adjust how long it takes for a shortcut menu to appear in the Tablet & Pen Settings dialog box accessed through the control panel.




Tablet PCs for Dummies
Tablet PCs for Dummies
ISBN: 0764526472
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 139

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