Thursday, March 12, 2009

The amazing scroll wheel

If you don't have a scroll wheel on your mouse, you are just limping along in your digital world. I've posted before how you can open a web browser link in a new tab by clicking on it with the scroll wheel, and delete a tab in your browser by scroll wheel clicking. I've just discovered you can also close a folder (whether open or minimised) by scroll wheel clicking on its task bar icon. That's so much faster than maximising the window and then closing it.
Inside many documents, you can zoom in or out on the contents by holding down the Control key and rolling the scroll wheel. This trick works for Word documents, pdf documents, even browser windows, and probably many others besides.

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