Is there a keyboard equivalent for a left mouse button click?
The button on the mousepad on my Acer laptop makes quite a loud clicking
noise, and it really annoys my wife when she's in the same room. If there
was an alternative, such as Alt + some key, this would be extremely useful.
Phil.

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"Phil Preen" <n/a> wrote in message
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> Is there a keyboard equivalent for a left mouse button click?
> The button on the mousepad on my Acer laptop makes quite a loud clicking
> noise, and it really annoys my wife when she's in the same room. If there
> was an alternative, such as Alt + some key, this would be extremely
> useful.
> Phil.
>

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:15:35 +0100, "Phil Preen" <n/a> wrote:

>Is there a keyboard equivalent for a left mouse button click?
>The button on the mousepad on my Acer laptop makes quite a loud clicking
>noise, and it really annoys my wife when she's in the same room. If there
>was an alternative, such as Alt + some key, this would be extremely useful.
>Phil.
>
Since you mentioned laptop, you could tap your touchpad.

Enter does not do the same thing as clicking the mouse button, except in a
very lmited way in some applications. What I'm look for is a key that I can
press that is equivalent to pressing the left mouse button. i.e. select
whatever is under the mouse cursor.

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> "Phil Preen" <n/a> wrote in message
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>> Is there a keyboard equivalent for a left mouse button click?
>> The button on the mousepad on my Acer laptop makes quite a loud clicking
>> noise, and it really annoys my wife when she's in the same room. If there
>> was an alternative, such as Alt + some key, this would be extremely
>> useful.
>> Phil.
>>
>

>> "Phil Preen" <n/a> wrote in message
>> news:ObmdnQJRfaJVX4nVnZ2dnUVZ8uadnZ2d@plusnet...
>>> Is there a keyboard equivalent for a left mouse button click?
>>> The button on the mousepad on my Acer laptop makes quite a loud clicking
>>> noise, and it really annoys my wife when she's in the same room. If there
>>> was an alternative, such as Alt + some key, this would be extremely
>>> useful.
>>> Phil.
>>>

Autohotkey has a script that emulates up to 5 mouse buttons after
activating with the scroll lock key.

Search in the Help file for "mouse click".

autohotkey.com

"Craig Hutchinson" <usenet@hutchbox.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:15:35 +0100, "Phil Preen" <n/a> wrote:
>
>>Is there a keyboard equivalent for a left mouse button click?
>>The button on the mousepad on my Acer laptop makes quite a loud clicking
>>noise, and it really annoys my wife when she's in the same room. If there
>>was an alternative, such as Alt + some key, this would be extremely
>>useful.
>>Phil.
>>
> Since you mentioned laptop, you could tap your touchpad.

That's true. I could try that, thanks for the suggestion.
I'd still be interested in a keyboard alternative though.

Phil.