When should you click, and when should you double-click your mouse? This question eludes experienced computer users as well as novices.
A click simply means to press down the left mouse button, which is your pointer finger.
A double-click is pressing down the left mouse button twice in quick succession. If you are having problems double-clicking, you might be slightly moving the mouse between the clicks.
Some folks might have difficulty physically double-clicking their mouse because such a rapid double-click is required. You can slow down the re-quired speed for a double click in your “mouse properties” in your “control panel”.
Also, if you are left-handed, you can switch the orientation of the buttons in mouse properties as well. My experience has shown me that people who have been using a computer for years still have problems knowing when to single-click or double-click.
When navigating through files and folders, be sure to always double click to activate them. This applies to “file open” and “file save” dialog boxes as well as icons on your desktop and programs in your taskbar.
These are the only times you need to double click.
Double clicking causes an action to be carried out, such as opening a file or folder, or executing a program. If you want to do something with those files and folders, such as copy and paste them, single click to select them. Think of this as “targeting” it for some action to come next.
Right-clicking will bring up a list of possible actions for an object.
Everything else, including menu and start menu items, switching to running programs and windows in your taskbar, buttons, sand web-browsing, simply single-click.
The most common misconception about mouse-clicking that I have noticed is when people double click links in their web-browser.
This is not necessary, as web-browsing requires only single-clicks.
In both the Windows and Mac platforms, when files or folders are already clicked and selected, they are deselected once some-thing else is clicked.
You can select and deselect multiple items by holding in control when you click.
If you have any questions about your mouse-clicking woes feel free to e-mail me: rracela@cmcherald.com.
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