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You can see the button on the bottom left of the wood-grained rodent above. Their work inspired both Microsoft and Apple to make the, now familiar, window interface. Malcolm Gladwell tells the Apple Creation Myth. Jobs and Apple started with a single mouse button and mostly sticks with the single-button concept to this day. Microsoft moved on to embrace the two-button mouse.
The left button kept its original purpose of selecting or pointing at things. There have been efforts to extend beyond two button mice. There was a three-button mouse but it failed to interest people. There are still mouse available with buttons on the side etc, mostly for gamers. The main mouse innovation has been the optical mouse.
Long gone is the underside ball that you had to clean and now mice work on almost any surface. Skip to content Menu Cart. When you left-click with your mouse, you have made a selecting click. This performs the main action available to you. For example, if you click on something you see on the screen, a left-click will select it.
A right-click brings up a context menu. A context menu offers the most commonly available options for the area in which you are working. Context menus are aware of their surroundings, and offer you options relevant to the area of the program you're using. If you right-click on your toolbar, you'll see, for example all the toolbars available in that application.
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