Using The Touchpad; Point And Click - Compaq Armada 100 Reference Manual

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TouchPad

Your notebook integrates a TouchPad pointing device, compatible with the

Microsoft Mouse and PS/2-type mouse, which allows you to take advantage of

software that requires or recognizes a pointing device.

Using the TouchPad

Placing and Moving the Finger

To use the TouchPad, place your thumb or forefinger on the TouchPad. The

rectangular pad acts like a miniature duplicate of your display. As you slide your

fingertip across the pad, the pointer, or cursor, on the screen moves in the same

direction across the screen as your fingertip moves across the pad.

When you have placed the cursor over the icon, menu item or command that you

want to execute, you can press the left button once or twice to execute the

command. This procedure is called "Point and click" or "point and double-click".

On the TouchPad, you can execute pointing and clicking even more rapidly.

Instead of clicking by pressing the left button, gently tap anywhere on the

rectangular pad of the TouchPad. To double-click, rapidly tap twice. Unlike a

traditionally pointing device, the whole pad acts as if it were a left button and each

tap on the pad is equivalent to pressing the left button.

NOTE: If you swap the left and right buttons, "tapping" on the TouchPad

as an alternative method of pressing the left button will no longer be valid.

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Figure 2-4. The TouchPad

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