You will use the following mouse techniques to do just about all of the tasks in this chapter.

§   Click to select or activate something

§   Press to cause a continuous action

§   Drag to select, choose from a menu or move something

§   Shift-Click to select or to extend or reduce a selection

§   Double-Click to choose from a dialog box

To Click

Position the pointer on what you want to select or activate

Press and quickly release the mouse button

To Press

Position the pointer on something

Without moving the mouse, press and hold down the mouse button.

The effects of pressing continue as long as the mouse button is held down. Pressing on a scroll arrow results in continuous scrolling. Pressing on a menu title pulls down the menu and keeps it down until you release the mouse button.

To Drag

Position the pointer on something

Press and hold down the mouse button and move the mouse

Release the mouse button.

To Shift-Click or Ctrl-Click

Shift-click is used to extend or reduce the selection. In the Shape Window this will select or deselect the shapes. Hold down the shift key and click on the shape you wish to add to the selection or which you wish to remove from the selection

To Double-Click

Double click is used as a short cut equivalent to opening the properties dialog..

In the Shape Window, point to the shape you wish to edit and then click twice quickly in succession without moving the mouse.

To Scroll

In the windows with tabular data, the mouse wheel can be used to scroll the view up or down.

To Zoom

In the Shape Windows the mouse wheel can be used to dynamically zoom the view within the Window.

To scroll a table one line up or down

Click the appropriate arrow at the top or bottom of the vertical scroll bar

To scroll a table one column left or right

Click the appropriate arrow at the left or right of the horizontal scroll bar

To scroll a table continuously line by line

Press the appropriate arrow at the top or bottom of the vertical scroll bar

To scroll a table continuously column by column

Press the appropriate arrow at the left or right of the horizontal scroll bar

To scroll up or down by the windowful

Click in the grey area above or below the scroll box in the vertical scroll bar.

To scroll left or right by the windowful

Click in the grey area to the left or right of the scroll box in the horizontal scroll bar.

To go to the beginning or the end of the table

Drag the scroll box to the top or the bottom of the vertical scroll bar.

To go to the left or right hand edge of the table

Drag the scroll box to the left or the right of the horizontal scroll bar.

To go to any part of a large table

Drag the scroll box to a place in the scroll bar that's about equivalent to where the data is in the table.