In many manuals, help screens and web sites, you may told to "right click" on an icon. This "right click" means using the right mouse button.

Your mouse can really be your friend. Your mouse allows you to jump around the screen, move entire blocks of information from place to place, and lets you save with just one click.

Did you know that there are more things available to you using the right mouse button as opposed to the left one you normally use?

The right mouse button will bring up new shortcuts and utilities that will take your computing power to greater speed and efficiency. The right mouse button’s feature differ from program to program.

A few examples of using the right mouse button:

• At the basic Windows desktop, you can access the video display, screen saver and basic desktop functions. This includes creating new folders or adding shortcuts to programs

• At the start menu you can access Windows Explorer, the Start menu icons and find utilities.

• In Word you can access cut, paste and font capabilities.

• In other folders you can create shortcuts or view properties of an icon, folder or file.

• In the systray in the lower right corner of your screen, a right click can identify or modify various utilities, change the time and date and change the volume of your speakers.

Try the right mouse button at various points on your screen and within various programs. You might be surprised at what you’ll find.

Do the Bill Gates Shuffle!

"Right Click, Left Click, Right Click, Left Click"

Its a new dance step everyone can do. Even those that are choreographically challenged

On occasion you may be directed to right click, then left click, then right click again. I fondly refer to this as "THE BILL GATES SHUFFLE".

Everyone can do it, from your basic computer nerd who cannot even do a box step, to the top dance performers doing ……… You don’t need to be Fred Astaire do this.