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Section 2. Getting Familiar with Your Computer
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Using Your Touchpad
Clicking
1 First, place your fingers on the keyboard in the normal typing position. The touchpad is easily accessible by
moving either your left or right thumb off the space bar and on to the touchpad.
2 Gently move your thumb across the pressure-sensitive touchpad in the direction you want the cursor to move. The
pad detects the change in pressure and moves the cursor in the corresponding direction.
NOTE The touchpad on your GoBook computer is a resistive type touchpad and is electrically sensitive to finger
touch. It will not respond if touched by anything other than your fingers, such as a stylus or pencil.
3 The touchpad offers another method of making selections in a software program. It is called double-tapping. This
function corresponds to double-clicking with a mouse. Once the cursor has been moved to the object you want to
select, lightly double-tap the pressure sensitive touchpad. This double-tapping on the touchpad will select the
desired item and prompt the software to perform the related operation.
4 The left and right buttons located directly below the touchpad are the same in function as those on a two-buttoned
mouse. Clicking these buttons makes selections, drags objects, or performs a variety of other functions depending
on the software. To select an object, first move the pointer over the object you want to select, and then press the
left button one time. The functions of these buttons are software specific.
Double-clicking
• Double-clicking is a common technique for selecting objects or launching programs from icons. Once you
have moved the pointer over the object you wish to select, rapidly press the left button two times. This action
is commonly referred to as “double-clicking” an object.
Dragging
• Move the pointer to the desired location then press down the left button. While still holding down the left
button, move the pointer to the desired location. Release the button.