Technical information

Introduction

✓ When told to click, you should tap. Quickly

touching and releasing your finger on a button

is the same as clicking it with a mouse.

✓ When told to double-click, tap twice. Two

touches in rapid succession does the trick.

✓ When told to right-click something, hold down

your finger on the item. Then, when a little

menu pops up, lift your finger. The menu stays

put onscreen. (That’s exactly what would have

happened if you’d right-clicked the item with a

mouse.) While you’re looking at the pop-up

menu, tap any of its listed items to have

Windows carry out your bidding.

If you find touchscreens to be cumbersome

while you’re sitting at a desk, you can always

plug a mouse and keyboard into your touch-

screen tablet. They’ll work just fine. In fact, they

usually work better when working on the

Windows desktop rather than the Start screen.

Icons Used in This Book

It just takes a glance at Windows 8 to notice its icons,

which are little push-button pictures for starting vari-

ous programs. The icons in this book fit right in, and

they’re even a little easier to figure out.

Watch out! This signpost warns you that techni-

cal information is coming around the bend.

This icon alerts you about juicy information that

makes computing easier: a method for keeping

the cat from sleeping on top of your tablet, for

example.

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