Quick Tip: Doin’ Wheelies
Be sure to look up the help for your favorite applications to see what variations of the mouse wheel can do for you (or just experiment). For example, did you know that holding down the Control key while spinning the wheel in Microsoft Word changes the zoom factor?
For another example, in TextPad, holding down the Shift key while spinning the wheel accelerates the scrolling.
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destinyking wrote:
And also one can increase/decrease the size of text in firefox by holding the control key and spinning the wheel.
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 1:37 am ¶
Mike Wyman wrote:
The control key mouse wheel behavior appears to be a Windows standard. Any application which supports zooming (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Acrobat, Excel) responds to the control mouse wheel.
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 6:07 am ¶
Pete Turner wrote:
Holding down the Shift key while spinning the wheel in internet explorer takes you forward and backward through the page history.
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 7:12 pm ¶