How To Use Keyboard Instead Of Mouse

With Mouse Keys, y'all tin use the numeric keypad on your keyboard—instead of the mouse—to move the pointer.

To turn on Mouse Keys

Open Ease of Access Centre by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Console, clicking Ease of Admission, and then clicking Ease of Access Center.
Click Make the mouse easier to utilise.
Under Control the mouse with the keyboard, select the Plow on Mouse Keys check box.

Moving the pointer using Mouse Keys

After you plow on Mouse Keys, yous can use the numeric keypad to motion the mouse.

To movement the mouse pointer	Press
Upwardly and to the left	7
Up	8
Upwards and to the correct	9
Left	4
Right	6
Downwardly and to the left	ane
Down	2
Down and to the right	iii

Selecting a mouse button

Before y'all utilize Mouse Keys to click items on your screen, you must get-go select which mouse button you lot want to exist the active button: the left button, the right one, or both.

To	Press
Select the left mouse button	The forward slash (/)
Select both buttons	The asterisk (✲)
Select the right mouse button	The minus sign (-)

Note:If you choose to make the left mouse push button the active push, it will remain the active push button until you lot choose another button. Afterwards you select a mouse button, y'all don't need to select a mouse button again until you lot want to modify buttons.

Clicking items using Mouse Keys

After yous choose a button, you tin can click items on your screen.

To	Exercise this
Click an particular	With the left push button selected as your active button, betoken to the item, and so printing 5
Right-click an item	With the right button selected equally your active button, point to the item and then printing v
Double-click an item	With the left button selected as your active button, bespeak to the particular and press the plus sign (+)

Dragging items using Mouse Keys

You lot tin use the numeric keypad to press and concord the active mouse button and to release it. This is helpful if you want to elevate an detail.

To	Do this
Drag an item	Point to the particular and so press null (0)
Drop an particular	Point to the location where y'all want to move the item and and then press the decimal bespeak (.)

Notes:

You can use the numeric keypad to printing and hold the active mouse button and to release it. This is helpful if you want to elevate an item.
To change options similar how speedily the mouse arrow moves and whether your calculator makes a sound when you plow on Mouse Keys, in the Ease of Admission Center, nether Command the mouse with the keyboard, click Gear up Mouse Keys.