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New Mouse has PITA method for highlighting text & Moving scroll bar
I've just bought a Microsoft Comfort 4500 wired mouse. I chose it because it's Microsoft and according the MS Store blurb it has "five customizable buttons that help ensure confident navigation and peak productivity". The booklets that came with it were in size 4 (?) font and covered dozens of languages - But there were no operating instructions. Two routes were on the packaging: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/downloads and http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/support. The first said "Sorry - this download is no longer available" and the second said "page does not exist". Ah well, such is the pace of change nowadays that it was no longer the most recent product by the time it reached me!
(1) To highlight text with my old mouse I simply position the cursor at the start of the text, left-click, highlight, right-click at the end of the text and press COPY. With the Comfort 4500, when I position the cursor at the start of the text and move it to the end, the highlighted text than changes as my mouse moves. I have to left-single-click once when I reach the end of the text to anchor it and then press Copy.
(2) Same kind of problem with the vertical slider bar on the right of internet pages. If I click on it at the top and move to the bottom it just goes up and down all over the place! Again, when I reach the position on screen that I want to look at, I have to left-single-click it to anchor the slider bar.
Not world shattering but a PITA, and an unexpected one thanks to MS' failure to provide operating instructions. And I've still no idea how to get to the promised "five customizable buttons".
I'd appreciate your thoughts please. I don't think I can blame a failed major WU this time nor Brexit.![]()