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GEM IN THE ROUGH THE TOUCHSCREEN VERB
CHALLENGE

Microsoft intends for Windows 10 to work just as well on touchscreen

tablets as it does on PCs with a keyboard and mouse (or trackpad). That
presents something of a challenge to people writing books about it.

Thousands of times in this book, instructions direct you to activate

something on the screen: a button, checkbox, icon, or tile. But what’s
the right verb here? If you have a touchscreen, telling you to click
something doesn’t sound quite right. And if you have a mouse, it’d be

weird to tell you to tap something.

So in the spirit of peace and understanding, in this book, you’re
generally instructed to hit, select, and choose things on the screen.

Those are equal-opportunity verbs that should confuse neither touch
people nor mouse people.

System Requirements for Your Brain

Windows 10 May 2019 Update: The Missing Manual is designed to
accommodate readers at every technical level (except system

administrators, who will be happier with a different sort of book).

The primary discussions are written for advanced-beginner or intermediate
PC owners. But if you’re using Windows for the first time, special sidebar

articles called “Up to Speed” provide all the introductory information you
need. If you’re fairly advanced, on the other hand, keep your eye out for

similar shaded boxes called “Power Users’ Clinic.” They offer more
technical tips, tricks, and shortcuts for the veteran PC fan.

About → These → Arrows

Throughout this book, and throughout the Missing Manual series, you’ll

find sentences like this: “Open → → System.” That’s shorthand for a
much longer instruction that directs you to open three nested icons in