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Mouse and trackpad tips

1 DEFINE YOUR CLICKS

It can be tiring repeatedly pressing down on a trackpad to trigger actions, so don’t. Instead, head into the Trackpad pane in System Preferences and turn on Tap to click. Now, a light tap is all you need. In both Trackpad and Mouse, define whether you want secondary clicks activated (for bringing up things like context menus) and how they should appear, from the various options provided.

2 CONTROL THE WAY YOU SCROLL AND ZOOM

If you’ve reasonable dexterity and are comfortable using the pointer, there’s no need to keep to the default tracking speed. In the Mouse and Trackpad panes, ramp up Tracking speed to whatever gives

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