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Question

Scroll Wheel button

by May 10, 2014 10:17AM PDT

Hey!
My mouse has a scroll wheel which I also can use as a button.
However, I never use this button-function. So I was wondering: is it possible to change the button-function of the scroll wheel to a ''select all'' function?
So when I am in Word, for example, and I press this scroll wheel everything will be selected.

Kind regards Happy

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Answer
The controls will be in the Mouse applet of Control Panel
by May 10, 2014 11:20AM PDT

If you have a Microsoft mouse, you can download the Intellipoint mouse driver from the MS web site and do what you want. If you have a different brand mouse, you might be able to do it if it came with its own driver. You can buy MS mice pretty cheaply.
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Good luck.

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Need help :)
by DominicRicardo May 11, 2014 9:00AM PDT

Hej!
Thanks a lot. I downloaded Intellipoint and there are a lot of other functions you can use the Wheel button for. However, not for the ''select all'' or ''ctrl+a'' function. Do you know how I can fix it anyway? Maybe an other solution?
Thanks a lot! :

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in Linux
by James Denison May 11, 2014 12:24PM PDT

I can use the mouse to hilight text with a left clk, hold and swipe. I can then clk the mouse wheel and that text will paste into a document or email. I don't know if the latest windows does that.

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