Give Your Right Mouse Button Some Attention | Right-Click
Right-Clicking Your Mouse Makes Life Easier
Apart from the all-fancy mouse options on the market, a conventional mouse has two main buttons, the right and the left. For those of you using your mouse with the left hand, just keep in mind that everything is vice-versa for you, meaning left is right and right is left! Most of us use the left mouse button on a regular basis; after all, to open any application you have to double click on the left mouse button. As a result, the right button hardly gets used by most folks, prefer instead to click click click their way through long menus to find what they are looking for.
However, after reading this you may want to use it more. Right-clicking almost anything will bring up a list of features or functions for that particular item. Try this, right-click in a blank space on your desktop (your desktop is where your icons are found, and usually a background of your favorite picture). Once you have right-clicked, select “Properties” and left click. The Display window appears.
Another way to open the Display window would be to click on the “Start” button (lower left corner of the screen), then select “Settings”, then “Control Panel” and then the “Display” button. Now which method is easier? I would say the right-Click method. Our motto on right-clicking is “When in doubt, right-click”. You would be amazed at what functions and features will appear after right-clicking. Of course, all the functions and features can be found the conventional way (the long way), but why bother with a long series of steps when you are only a right click away.
Context Menus and The Right Mouse Button
The menu you will be shown will vary depending on what you are right-clicking on. This is called a contextual menu, in other words will show you options in context with the file or shortcut you have right-clicked on. If you right-click on a Microsoft Word document, one of the options presented to you will be EDIT which would allow you to open the file in editing mode. Now, if you right-click on a game for example, you will not be given an option to EDIT. Don’t be scared to right-click anything and everything to find out if there any new shortcuts you can figure out.
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