Computer mouse single and double-clicks are widely used in software applications. Less known is the
mouse triple-click option, which could increase the convenience and overall productivity of computer operations.
You could try this mouse triple-click technique right now, while reading the paragraph and see the result: the entire paragraph got selected.
Mouse triple-click feature is implemented in all major web browsers, namely:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer IE7+
- Mozilla Firefox 3.6+
- Google Chrome (any version)
- Apple Safari 2.0+
The tricky part is to select the textual
fragment containing the hyperlinks on the web page; in this case, do the triple-click while pointing the cursor slightly to the right of the hyperlink "hot spot" in order to avoid the page redirection to the target URL.
Mouse triple-click feature is also implemented in many popular
text editing software apps, like, for example,
Microsoft Word (wider set of options is available in Microsoft Word, including the combination of
mouse-click with
Ctrl button).
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Computer mouse triple-click is a convenient feature[
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