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If you find yourself accidentally triggering clicks while you’re

typing, then choose a lower setting.

Taps. Modern trackpads are multitouch, meaning they can detect
more than one simultaneous finger touch. They therefore permit all

kinds of cool shortcuts, which you can turn on and off here. You
might have “Tap with two fingers to right-click” turned on, for
example. This is also where you can designate the lower-right

corner of your trackpad as the “right-click” button. (Or, if you find
yourself accidentally triggering right-clicks, you can turn these
checkboxes off.)

Scroll and zoom. The most involved settings here relate to two-
finger scrolling, which—along with mouse scroll wheels—has

made scroll bars largely obsolete. Out of the box, “reverse
scrolling” is enabled: You drag two fingers up the trackpad, and the
page scrolls up. That seems logical if you’re used to scrolling on a

tablet or a smartphone, but it feels backward for longtime scroll-
bar lovers. Fortunately, you can reverse the scrolling direction by
choosing “Down motion scrolls down” here.

Pinch to zoom. This feature works just as it does on a phone, at
least in some apps (Photos, Edge, Microsoft Office apps, and a few

others): Draw two fingers together on the trackpad to zoom out of
a photo or document, or spread two fingers apart to zoom in
(magnify).

Three-finger gestures, Four-finger gestures. If your laptop offers
these choices, and you’re willing to put in the time to learn them,

they can make you much faster on your laptop, because your
trackpad hand never needs to leave its home base (to use the
keyboard, for example). See Figure 12-3.

You can even specify what happens when you tap with three

fingers (or four fingers). For example, you might use the drop-
down menu to choose Search with Cortana or Action Center,

making one of those functions just a three-finger tap away.