Windows Operating System: Scratch Roll Function

Windows Operating System: Scratch Roll Function

Most mouse devices have a control wheel arranged between the right and left buttons. This wheel button allows quick scrolling through the document, but that's just one of its capabilities. Here are the steps to exploit scrolling in Windows.

Know the basics: Sure you know the mouse wheel button will duplicate the effect of the button when adding the ability to move the file open up or down in the active window. However, with many programs, pressing the wheel once will put you into horizontal motion mode. To move the document window up or down, you mouse over that direction; Continue to move until the mouse moves in the other direction or click on its buttons. In some applications (such as Notepad when turning off the Word Wrap feature) this technique will move the document to the right or left. Notice that some programs require you to continuously press the middle button to perform this effect.

These functions may vary depending on the manufacturer of the mouse, and depending on the type of driver you use. So, if you do not achieve these enhancements, do not be afraid, but go to the manufacturer's website to get the latest software and mouse drivers.

Figure 1: Choose the ability to scroll quickly or slowly through Mouse Properties.

Customizing the Move: If the wheel button causes your screen to jump too far after each click, or if you have to roll the wheel repeatedly to scroll the required section, try adjusting the sensitivity of the wheel. In the Address bar of any Windows Explorer window, type Control PanelMouse and press & lt; Enter & gt ;.
Hit the Wheel label (it can be called Scrolling or equivalent), and use the controls listed here to adjust how many pages your scroll (fast or slow) scrolls for each click. wheel (Figure 1).

If you use the Mozilla browser, you can make it scroll one screen at a time, while all other applications scroll through the selected lines for each click. You first set the line count for most applications in the Mouse Properties dialog box as shown above. Then launch Mozilla and select Edit.Preferences. Double-click Advanced (or click the plus sign next to it), and select Mouse Wheel. On the 'No modifier key' label, you select & quot; scroll up page or a page down & quot; (Figure 2).

If you want to scrolling some webpages by the number of screens and other pages by the number of lines, you select the option you want to use for most pages (the top option for the line number or the second option for the each screen). Then click the label corresponding to the key (Alt, Control, Shift or No modifier key) that you want to hold for another scroll, and select the required option there. When done, click OK. The next time, as you scroll through a web page, your wheel button scrolls one step without any keys pressed, and scrolls another step as you roll the wheel while pressing a specific key.

Figure 2: Make Mozilla Browser scroll the page as you like

Extensibility: Many browsers and applications offer many new features for the mouse wheel. For example, in Internet Explorer, press and hold the & lt; Ctrl & gt; Also, roll your mouse wheel forward or backward to increase or decrease the size of the text in your web page. If this does not work in IE, select Tools, Internet Options, and click Accessibility on the General tab. Check to & quot; Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages & quot; then click OK twice. To have this effect in Mozilla, select Edit, Preferences, double-click Advanced (or press + next to it), and then click Mouse Wheel. Select the label for that key (Alt, Control, Shift, or No modifier key) that you want to hold and hold when adjusting the text size, then click Make the text larger or smaller. Click OK.

This trick works even better in current versions of applications such as Microsoft Word, Adobe InDesign CS, and the Opera browser. In these apps, the & lt; Ctrl & gt; - & quot; wheel button & quot; Will increase or decrease the magnification of the entire page (including graphics) instead of just adjusting the size of the display text. InDesign will shrink the details in the scope below the cursor, so you can resize a predefined point by pointing the cursor and pressing the wheel button. Opera allows you to redirect the site back to its default size of '100%' using the & lt; Ctrl & gt; - press the wheel button.

In Adobe Photoshop CS, press and hold & lt; Ctrl & gt; along with the space bar while clicking to enlarge. But with the mouse wheel, just press and hold either (Ctrl + Alt + Or zoom in on the point below the cursor.

Web Browsing: The mouse wheel can be used instead of the Forward and Back buttons in the Web browser. In Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera, press and hold & lt; Shift & gt; At the same time rolling forward / backward - the browser will also advance / reverse a link.

To do this in Mozilla, you go to the Mouse Wheel of the Preferences dialog box, as shown in the previous tip. Select the tag with the custom key as required and select Move back and forward in the browsing history. Click OK.

Figure 3: Do not use rolls when the drop down list is active, unless you want to change the selection

Hazard Prevention: If your site or documents use forms with drop down lists, please note! When selecting an option from the drop down list and then rotating the mouse wheel to scroll down that page, you can accidentally change your selection instead of scrolling through the page - as illustrated in Figure 3.

To avoid these nasty surprises, you pay attention to the click of a webpage (not a link) outside this fall control when you finish your selection. Then double check that the appropriate selection has been highlighted before rolling.

Discover more wheel tricks: For more ways to use the mouse wheel in applications, click the Help menu to open the main help page for an app, and then search for the word 'wheel'. or 'mouse wheel'. Another way is to go to the mouse manufacturer's website to find these items.

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Sometimes old gadgets are still the best. Flywheel, a software that came out a few years ago, could make the most stubborn applications even more useful with mouse wheel. In addition to allowing the mouse wheel in many applications, Flywheel also allows you to customize the behavior of the wheel according to the application, allowing the wheel to roll faster in some programs. Flywheel can work well with the latest versions of Windows. Flywheel authors do not continue to support this program anymore, you can use it for free. To register for this add-on, type I Am Free as a registered trademark and get 13601409 as your registration number. Visit Flywheel to find.pcworld.com/43724.


Easy scrolling in Excel

7777 & Adjust Display Properties to change the scroll bar size.

One advantage of using the mouse wheel in Excel is that you can see the scroll through the spreadsheet without losing your current choice. But if your mouse does not have a wheel, or if you want to keep your hand on the keyboard, use the left-most key. & Lt; ScrollLock & gt ;; Press the key (the light can be turned on) and use the up, down, right and left arrow keys to move around the page. For the arrow keys to return to normal, press & lt; Scrollock & gt; again to disable that feature.

Customize the scroll bar

If you use mouse wheel tricks here, you may not always use the scroll bar. On the other hand, if the mouse does not have wheels, you may have to rely on scrolling in the application when navigating large files. Either way, you can make the scrollbars larger for easier clicking, or smaller to take up space. To adjust the size of the scroll bar, right-click the desktop and select Properties.Appearance (in Windows XP click the Advanced button at this point). In the dropdown list, select the Scrollbar. Use the numeric controls on the right to zoom in or out (Fig. 4). Click Apply (or OK and then Apply in Windows XP) to see the new size. When satisfied, click OK multiple times until the dialog box closes.