The Learning Ladder Computer Basics Module

Clicking the Mouse (continued)

Sometimes you'll click on something, and nothing happens at all. For example, if you click in this paragraph, nothing happens. That's OK! If something you click doesn't "react" or cause something to happen, it just means there's nothing to do there.

On the first page, we talked about using the "Page Down" or "arrow" keys to move down and keep reading. You can also use your mouse to do this, with the scroll bars. The scroll bars are usually on the right and bottom edges of the window, and have arrows on them. You can click the arrows to move in that direction.

Clicking the down-arrow will make the page move down by one line; repeatedly clicking it will move down one line at a time. (This is called scrolling.) Clicking the up-arrow will move the page up one line at a time. If you click the down-arrow and the page doesn't move, it means you're at the bottom and you can't go any farther. If there isn't a down-arrow at all, it means the page is small enough that you can see the whole thing at once and there's no need to scroll.

You've learned the basics of clicking with the mouse!

The next thing to learn is called dragging. We'll learn about that on the next page.

Click "next" to continue to the next page.

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